We had a great first week at White Hall Elementary. We jumped right in to our reading series with a story called "David's New Friends". It's a story about a boy on his first day of second grade. It really went well with our first week of "new".
Our class has 14 students. Eight boys and six girls. We are doing a great job with our procedures of entering and leaving the classroom and transitioning from activity to another. I am very impressed with each one of the members of our new class. I can tell that this is going to be a great year!!!
We started our math series, Everyday Math, with an exercise in daily routines. We really had fun exploring our new math tools and we're looking forward to writing to 1000 next week. Two of the skills that we will work very hard on this year are place value and answering extended response questions. We will alternate Friday math times between math games and extended response questions. We hope to get these skills under our belts soon.
We spent our social studies/science time studying the history of White Hall. It was really fun to look at some of the old pictures of our town and school and compare them to our town today. We hope to continue this study over the next few weeks with Greene County Days and a special trip to the Annie Keller statue.
We'll have more news and hopefully some pictures next week. Have a great Labor Day weekend.
