1. Mrs. Norvell’s and Mrs. Novak’s Multiage Class Welcome, Parents!

2. My Family  My husband  Frosty  My children  Forrest and Meghan  Austin  Travis and soon-to-be daughter-in-law Erin

3. My Grandchildren Henson and Ford

4. Sarah’s Family  Husband Ralph  Children Andrew Harrison Jordan Clayton

5. Welcome to a day in our classroom!

6. Our Goals  To give your children the academic and social skills they need to progress to the third grade.  To provide a supportive and fun classroom environment.  To help your children make new friends and discover new interests.

7. Typical Day Sign In, Lunch Choice, Take Home Books, Read, Attendance Morning Meeting Reading Workshop Snack/Math Learning Stations Writing Workshop Lunch/Recess Special Area Text Talk, Phonics Centers Free Choice Centers

8. Morning Work  Sign In  Lunch Choice  Buy Snack  Unfinished Work

9. Morning Meeting  Greeting  Songs  Sharing

10. Reading Workshop  Children read books on their level.  Children are working on reading strategies just right for them.

11. Learning Stations Leaning Stations are integrated based on our topic of study Children work in small groups of mixed ages

12.  Whole and small groups Monday through Thursday  Small groups and games on Friday

13. Writing Workshop  The children write daily on topics of their choice within our units of study.  We confer and edit with them.  They publish and share their writing.

14. Recess/Lunch  We go to lunch around 11:30 and have recess at 11:55.

15. Special Areas  Monday – PE Spanish  Tuesday - Art  Wed. - Art  Thurs. – Computer/ Library  Friday - Drama

16. Word Work  We will work by Grade Levels and in our own classes.  The “first graders” will have a list of high frequency words that they need to know.  The older children will need to know how to spell the high frequency words for second grade.

17. Free Choice Centers  Every day but Monday the children have time at the end of the day to choose what they want to do during center time.  This is their favorite time of day.

18. Centers

21. A Long Day

22. Let’s Have a Great Year!