Welcome to our Room 201 Post Office! The students earn daily stickers for being on "blue" at the end of the school day (going above and beyond schoolwide expectations) and every sticker they earn provides them with a stamp for the Room 201 Post Office. I use a sticker chart to keep track of student's stamps. I simply place a line through the sticker to note when a stamp has been used. I attempted a more realistic version of stamps and gave them to the students to keep, but then realized that expecting first graders to keep track of tiny stamps was unreasonable.
The idea is that students first write a friendly letter, place in in an unsealed envelope, then drop it the green basket for teacher review. My job is to ensure it has all 5 components of a friendly letter, place an official stamp on the envelope and send it off to the mailbox (if it isn't missing required components). Letters can go in during the week (and can easily be worked on during Daily 5), then are delivered on Fridays! Who doesn't like getting mail from your friends? It does take time to keep up on my Roo 201 Mail-- I read many sweet letters every week.
Our Amazing Adjective board in an interactive display that has been up since December when we first began to focus on word choice and synonyms during our writer's workshop mini lessons. I found the idea on pinterest and the kiddos love to get up and look for stronger adjectives and what I term as using "fancier" words in their writing. Students add more words to the board every week. It definitely assists my stronger writers in stretching their ideas and details.
Alright, well I will be back soon with our fabulous 100th day celebration activities. Yes, the 100th day has come and gone. That means we are officially over halfway up the mountain- 2nd grade is far away, but definitely in our field of vision.
Have a lovely Thursday evening,
Mary
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