Our November/December literacy theme books are all by Laura Numeroff. The first book was If you Give a Mouse a Cookie. This week we practiced sequencing/retelling the story and alphabetizing sight words from the story. Today we talked about some of the characteristics of mice and put the words into the sentences using the sentence starters, "Mice can..." Mice have..." and "Mice are...".
This week after a lot of planning we officially got some of our "Cheers to Peers" program up and going. Our first program is called "Recess Buddies." Each of our students will have two recess buddies that they will play with at lunch recess on Tuesday and Thursday (and sometimes Friday!) We had 123 general education students in grades 3-5 sign up to be peer buddies! Our fist session of Recess Buddies on Thursday went really well and we saw some great interactions! I am hoping that as the year progresses we will see more natural and spontaneous interactions happening on the days that we don't have official recess buddies. Here are a few photos from Thursday's lunch recess!