Well, it finally came - the first day of class! It was exciting to hear the students say that they liked being in our classroom, and that it was a lot of fun. I asked them to describe our first day of school, and this is what they said:
- We have 24 students in our class, and two of them are new to our school - their names are Mikayla and Dasia
- When you get to Grade 3, you get to play on different play structures than you did in Kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 2.
- We had an assembly this morning, to welcome everyone back to school (but the Kindergarten students weren't there, because they only start school on Friday).
- The students got their new school supplies (which they loved!).
- The students got to know each other again by doing an activity where they asked each other a lot of interesting questions, such as trying to find out which of their classmates like to eat liver, have milked a cow, have seen a rainbow, or are left-handed.
- We started reading a chapter book - it was the first book of Gordon Korman's "On The Run" series.
- We got to use the SMARTBoard - we saw how it worked, and then we used it to start making our classroom rules.
- We started learning about blogs.
After we made our list, the students were surprised at how much we did today. Just like most first days, it went by way too quickly, and we didn't quite get everything done that I had hoped to. That's ok... we've got almost 200 more to go, so we should catch up :)
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