First Day of School!

We had a wonderful first day of school today! We had our first morning meeting where we began getting to know each other and creating our new classroom community. We started learning and practicing our classroom routines, had library, played outside with friends both old and new, and read the book, The Kissing Hand. We read the book, First Day Jitters, which is about someone who is nervous about starting school (ask your child what the surprise ending was) followed by a poem about a magical Jitter Juice that chases the jitters away. We drank some Jitter Juice then created a tally chart showing how many students in our class did or did not like the juice!

We also began word study today with our "Mystery Name of the Day" game where we guessed consonants and vowels in a mystery name (one of our classmates) and reviewed letter names and sounds as we revealed which classmate's name we were spelling. Today's mystery name was Sabina and we learned a bit about her and started creating a book about the new friends in our class. We will have a different mystery name tomorrow! Tomorrow we plan to start our Everyday math program and to start opening up our classroom library!

I tweeted out one photo from today but please return those completed blog permission slips so that I can start posting photos of all the great things we are starting to learn in first grade!