All Are Welcome

This morning I introduced something new: See, Think, Wonder, Write.  Every Tuesday and Thursday morning we will look at a picture and (eventually) will write about what we see, notice and wonder.  Today we talked about the first word "See" and answered the following questions: What Does it Look Like? What Do you Notice? Can you Describe It?  What Do you Observe?  This was our picture from today...tomorrow we will find out what it is!  Any guesses?  One suggestion was a lamp!

I read the book All Are Welcome and we discussed what we noticed about all of the different children on the cover of the book.  After reading the book, students worked on creating a self portrait.  

This afternoon after recess we had a class meeting and worked to develop our first class rule together:

Listen with your ears and your eyes.

First Day of First Grade!

Welcome Back! It was an awesome and BUSY first day of first grade.  We started the day with a morning meeting and reviewed the structure of morning meeting:

• Greeting 
• Share 
• Morning Message 
• Activity 

After snack we took a tour of the school and met some new folks!  We have a new Music teacher this year, Mr. Dave 

and a new Art teacher, Mrs. Mitchell.  

Mrs. Winn is also the new administrative assistant in our main office.  I read the book The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! and we talked about how we are feeling, what we are excited about and what we wonder about first grade.  First grade enjoyed their first music class with Mr. Dave, had recess and were introduced to our new "Quiet Time Bags."  The day ended with PE!