We recently learned how to analyze and describe the characters in the stories we read. Today we made a list of positive characteristics that would describe students in our class. We came up with cool, fun, funny, friend, helpful, artistic, creative, helpful, musical, and many more. Each student was given a wooden frame to place on their desk. The class went around to each desk and wrote a positive characteristic for that person on their frame. Each student will be able to take their picture frame and painted rock home as a reminder that they are AWESOME!
As 1st grade comes to an end we took some time to remember and discuss the theme of the year....everyone is special in their own way. We began the year talking about how everyone is unique and different. Throughout the year we tried to teach the class that not everyone learns the same way or at the same pace. Everyone has talents and everyone is special. Today I read the book "Only One You" by Linda Kranz. The book is illustrated with painted rocks and the words teach life lessons such as "Find your own way. You don't have to follow the crowd." After reading the book the students got to paint their own rock. Each rock is painted different. Not one rock is better than the other. They are all different, but they are all special. I wrote the message "You are Special" on each rock as a keepsake. We recently learned how to analyze and describe the characters in the stories we read. Today we made a list of positive characteristics that would describe students in our class. We came up with cool, fun, funny, friend, helpful, artistic, creative, helpful, musical, and many more. Each student was given a wooden frame to place on their desk. The class went around to each desk and wrote a positive characteristic for that person on their frame. Each student will be able to take their picture frame and painted rock home as a reminder that they are AWESOME! This week in social studies we learned about economics. The class learned about needs, wants, goods, services, producers, and consumers. As a fun way to practice producer and consumer the students took part in an economic activity. They became producers. They were given colored play doh to create their own cookie. They had to create the cookie and an advertisement. The flier included the name of the cookie, a picture and the price. Once they were finished producing their good, we invited in some consumers. Mr. Boodheshwar and Mr Merrill (the high school principal) came into the classroom with $10.00 fake dollars. They walked around and purchased a few cookies. The students learned that if they priced their cookie too high people would not buy it. Hopefully they learned a lot and had fun in the process. To connect language arts into this lesson we listened to the book MMM, Cookies by Robert Munsch.
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