A typical day in our classroom involves greeting each child with a smile each morning! We may not know what happened when the child was away from school, but we do know we can make school a positive atmosphere!!
I teach 28 energetic first graders each and every day.
My students vary in learning styles, academic levels, behaviors, race, and economic levels. All of my students have very unique needs and learn very differently. I am constantly searching for ways to best help each and every child.
My Project
This year, I want to introduce my children to Fluency and Fitness.com. Fluency and Fitness has a wonderful update which has brought along so many new and improved benefits. Now my children will be able to have a year-long subscription to fitness and fun.
I want to provide my children with the opportunity to not only be physically active today but the opportunity to teach skills and basic well-being conducive to maintaining physical activity for a lifetime.
Fluency and Fitness will help my children review essential reading and math facts with the click of a mouse. After selecting a subject, they will have access to over 350 videos within various subtopics and options of viewing slides with a 3 or 6-second pause. In addition, these sides include a fitness component a huge plus. After a few slides of facts, a fitness slide pops up with background music and an animated character modeling the exercise. How awesome is that? Children are sure to love this as they do the floss and basic exercises like toe touches and windmills. These animated characters are my favorite because they help model the exercises the children will be doing.
In addition to this wonderful fitness subscription, I am asking for a few boxes of new markers. My students love Mr. Sketch markers and we are always running out of them!
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