Hopes and Dreams

Overt the past two weeks our class has spent lots of time talking about our hopes and dreams, or goals, for first grade. We started by reading some wonderful books to get our ideas flowing. First we read The Big Orange Splot, which is a funny story about a man who goes against the grain to follow his dreams and ends up getting his friends to do the same. Next we read The OK Book, which is a wonderful book where the character tells us many things he is "ok" at doing but will get better at with practice. The third is titled Ish, and is one of my favorites because the main character learns that he doesn't have to do everything perfectly and should keep working at the things he loves anyway. He draws a picture of a flower vase that looks "vase-ish," he writes poems that sound "poem-ish," etc. He realizes that practice is great, it's ok not to do everything perfectly, and that "ish" is a pretty good place to start! What a wonderful lesson for all of us, especially as we plan our goals for the year.

After reading books about personal hopes/dreams/goals we made a list of ideas for ourselves and each student picked a hope and dream that they want to focus on in first grade. The slideshow below shows what each student's hope and dream is and, though they may seem to be lofty goals, we will get to all of them this year! I felt so excited watching this slideshow and can't wait to help the students start reaching toward their hopes and dreams for the year!

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