First Week Highlights

• Getting to know our classroom libraries by having a genre scavenger hunt
• Generating safety ideas for school so no one gets physically or emotionally hurt
• Word Ladders
• Writing prompts
• Our favorite summer reads bulletin board

• Pledging to be responsible 4th graders
• "Wanted" posters for respectful teachers and classmates this year
• Learning circles with Mrs. Cyr
• "Filling" our invisible buckets and being acknowledged with "warm fuzzies"
• Picto graphing our birthdays with cupcakes

• Read alouds (Thunder Cake, Respect, Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing)
• Mrs. Randall's About Me Box
• Digital breakout.edu "Catch the Bus"
• Outdoor cooperative games: When the Warm Wind Blows, Hoop Game, Find your Match, Escape! (Quacker Birds)