Second Day of School

Today, on our second day of school, we learned more about our classroom routines and materials, and did lots of writing! We created pages for a class book called, "What I Did on Summer Vacation," and we started our Mystery Name of the Day books. Mystery Name of the day is a favorite activity at the beginning of the school year in first grade! I secretly choose a student of the day then, as a class, we use what we know about letter sounds and spelling to guess which student it is. The we spell the student's name, scramble the letters and practice putting them back in order, "interview" the student about a few of his/her favorite things and create pages for a book called, "My New Friends." Today Piper was the mystery student of the day so everyone created a book page about Piper with a drawing of her, her name, age, favorite food, and favorite activity. Tomorrow we will have a different mystery student of the day and on and on until everyone has had a turn! At the end of our activity (so in about 18 days) each student will have their own self-written book with a page about each classmate! Below are some great photos from today!

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