I am so excited to update all of our friends and family on the wonderful week we've been having together! This time of year always reminds me of the song "Getting to Know You" from The King and I. (It's one of my favorite musicals! :-)
We always start our year together by establishing our Hopes and Dreams for first grade (read more about why here). This year we started by reading a book called Big Al by Andrew Clements. Big Al's dream was to make friends, and he worked hard until it happened. After reading, we brainstormed our hopes and dreams for first grade and the future. We wrote about our dreams and posted them on the wall so we can always remember our goals. This display will inspire us to work hard all year long!
Another activity we always do at the beginning of the year is decide what we want to promise each other to be successful in first grade. We brainstorm ideas for our promise as a group...
Then we use those ideas to write a promise to each other.
As you can see, we decided LEARNING and HAVING FUN were the most important parts of our promise! Also, we all sign the promise to show we agree!
After we created our promise, we read a poem called "I look in the mirror." We then used mirrors to create our own faces to hang by our promise!
So far we have been having a great time together! I can't wait to post more about our first week! :-)
