Day 5

One week ago today we started first grade! How the time has flown. Today on our fifth day of school we worked more on our routines, expectations, and daily schedule, fitting in time for reading, writing, and math, as well as our first theme of the year. In first grade we have several thematic units including life cycles, solids and liquids, mapping, weather, etc. Before we kick off our official theme units of study we always focus on the theme "All About Me" where we learn about ourselves, each other, and becoming a community in our first grade classroom. Today we started this unit with a scavenger hunt focused on learning about classmates. In the photos below you will see students mingling to answer questions on their scavenger hunt such as, "find someone who can count to 100," "find someone who speaks another language," or "find someone who has the same color hair that you do." We also started our self portrait project, which is my favorite art project of the year and goes beautifully with our "All About Me" unit. In the photos below you will see students painting the backgrounds for their portraits and you will see two examples of portraits from last year (my portrait and one done by a former student). I am enjoying taking and posting photos from class each day (and I hope you are enjoying them too) but after this week I will plan to blog about once a week rather than daily. Please keep checking in with the blog for new posts, photos, upcoming dates, important information, and much more!

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