Week five ... Fall Friday Fun

That day you show up and you know exactly where the kids went the day before....

Monster word mash-up... probably should have saved this for Halloween... meh. We had fun.

 

 I taught a kindergartener how to hold scissors, mostly because he was becoming a hazzard to me and himself. {For those of you who don't know, there's this independence thing in kindergarden, where you're supposed to let them go and explore how to do things on their own, but I swear, all I did was say, 'Hey big guy, thumb goes in the tiny loop, fingers go together in the bog loop'. and then he switched the hands he was using and zoom, all of a sudden he was off}  I have no idea if he will remember how to do this on Monday, but I feel like I saw a click moment.

 

Ee is the new letter of the week this week, but they review  week behind so we talked about the letter Bb this week. Bb and Ee together is sort of confusing, especially the capitals. One group used fast as a snap words and built a sentence with Bb words; I see the __________ by the _____________.

[bat, box, bed, bear, bug, etc].
My other group really needed some letter identification work, and they love these flashcards [a free download you can find here!] Capital E you can see is having a rough go of it and is peeling away from it's back
[they're going for a trip through the laminator after school on Monday when I have the time.]

Fridays at NWE are now becoming bring a treat day, so we had

mint brownies, cream cheese frosted pumpkin cookies and apple fritter bread.

How do you say yum, let me count the ways...

In other exciting news, it has become known to myself and my cohort, Erica, that there will be two new AmeriCorps members joining us at Northwestern. What does this mean exactly? It means that there will be two full time people at NWE and two full time people at Springfield and one full time person at the high school. It means that there will be consistency for the staff and students, because they will be seeing the same smiling faces for five days a week instead of three days a week or two or what ever their schedule currently is. It means that Erica will got to one building full time and I will go to one building full time, and a new person will be with each of us, and take over the other person's schedule.

When this is going to happen, we have no idea. Who is going to what building we don't know.  It's supposed to happen soon. We're not sure what soon means. In the mean time it's chins up and onward.