After morning business, the first graders completed a quick phonics sheet before our morning meeting. We then moved on to Junior Great Books. The boys and girls placed themselves in the country mouse's shoes and thought about whether they would ever have returned to the city mouse's house. They then wrote about this and shared with each other.
We also had a lesson about what it means to be a bystander or an upstander. This included reading the book Each Kindness. Ask your child to tell you about the story. It would be worth another reading at home. Please let me know if you would like to borrow it for an evening.
I introduced some new activity choices for indoor recess: checkers, Boggle, Connect Four, and View Masters. The latter were a big hit! After recess, we began our new reading book: Flat Stanley. Ask your child how Stanley became flat!
During math, the first graders wrote numbers in word form, expanded form, and standard form. They also drew quick pictures to represent numbers and completed a mid-chapter check.
In the afternoon, the students had a guest teacher while I attended a meeting. They finished coloring their totem poles, and assembled them. When I returned, the students wrote stories about their totem poles and read them to each other.
Before going to music, the boys and girls played two rounds of a "I Have... You Have..." game.
We will read another legend that will help us learn about another part of North America tomorrow.