Our third week of school has gotten off to a great start! The children are adjusting to the new routines very well, and each morning we have had a peaceful and fairly long work period.
RM has continued her work with the MA. She began work with puzzle words last week and two word phrases. On Monday I gave her a lesson with sentences using CVC words and puzzle words. Here she is hard at work:
The younger students are very comfortable with the “transitional” type works and select them first each day. They have been walking carefully and holding the trays and containers in the manner that we presented. I noticed today that many of the children are not pushing in their chairs when leaving the table. We will need to emphasize this in our presentations more this week, or have another lesson just for sitting in a chair at the table.
On Tuesday we did our first craft type project for Rosh Hashanah. We made plates to hold our apples that will be dipped in honey for a sweet new year. The children worked in pairs and were given a plate coated with mod podge (glue). They selected tissue paper squares to creat their own design. When finished a second clear plate was placed on top sealing their design inside.
On Wednesday I gave CN a lesson on how to build a tower with the knobless cylinders. He was very interested with this material last week and spent a quite a bit of time placing them in order. He was enthusiastic about seeing another way to work with the material and he concentrated for a long time in order to complete the tower:
Today I gave a group lesson with the land, air, water materials and sorting cards. Here, NM has selected the work on her own and is correctly placing the cards in the proper categories:
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