Day 6

Today our class continued the all important practice of routines, taking care of materials, and what it means to be a first grader! To work on our "All About Me" theme we continued working on our self portrait project. Today kids chose a skin colored paint (from our Crayola multi-cultural paint set) that they thought best matched their skin color and painted a paper with it. Tomorrow, when it is dry, we will use those papers to cut out the shapes of heads, necks, and noses to begin putting our portraits together (see yesterday's photos for examples of finished portraits from last year)!
Today we also gave a lot of focus to our classroom library practicing choosing books, reading them, putting them away in the correct spots and taking out new ones. We have many books to choose from in our class and I love seeing the kids find ones they are excited about reading! Today we started talking about "red words," which are the sight words we practice during first grade and kids created little books incorporating our first two review words, "I," and "can." During math time we learned a new math game using pennies and we learned about our new first grade math journals!

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