It was nice to see everyone this morning! The enthusiasm to come back to school that was seen in the morning, carried through the whole day. I am sure this will be a great year.
This year, the class will have French first block, so they don't start the day with me until after recess. We spent the second block learning a little about myself, the school and our routines. It didn't take long until we were already at lunch!
After lunch, I showed them a number of read alouds I will be reading during the year. I prefer to read from chapter books, where I provide numerous pause points to discuss what is happening in the story and take predictions of what may happen next. It leads to a lot of deep conversations. The books are projected on the Smart Board so they can read along, and we often use it to discuss the language concepts for the term. For example, we will be looking at descriptive writing first, so I will be using opportunities in the book to analyze how the author described the setting. The first book I will be reading from is A Dog's Life: An Autobiography of a Stray, written by Ann M. Martin. Each night, you can always ask your child what happened in the chapter for the day. Would provide a great opportunity to provide a little recount! I will also be posting each chapter in their workspace, so they will have access to past chapters as well as the chapter that will be read the next day!
Afterwards, the class filled out an All About Me page that we will finish up tomorrow.
On a side note, we do have 2 snack times after each recess, plus our lunch of course. Please make sure you send nut-free snacks and lunches.
During fourth block, we had our first Art class. We discussed the difference between portrait and landscape. To make our art today, we were going to use portrait style because we are making Lego People. This helps discuss concepts of line and shape to make forms. This is the video we were learning from:
Lego Person Self-Portrait
Soon, we will be adding their face and hair to make it unique to themselves. Here are some samples we referred to:
Lego Hair
Lego Faces
During fourth block, the class also watched a Mystery Doug science video. We normally will be watching this on Mondays, but the Lego video was too good to ignore today. Here is a link to the video.
How were LEGO bricks invented?
If you would like to take a peek at our day schedule so far, I have included a link at the top of the sidebar on this page (you will have to be on a web browser to view).
