Today was a blur, and we packed a lot in. At the end of the day we worked on some tools for communicating with the home. A newsletter and schedule went home, as did our 'Agendas' which we are going to work on over the first few days. Eventually this will be a place where students will record the events from the day (daily agenda) and any notes that need to go home regarding upcoming activities of assignments. There will be a section in the back for parents to use when needing to send in messages for me. We were pressed for time, so this was not completed by everyone, but will be starting tomorrow.
Tomorrow we will be looking at inspiring videos messages, and creating guidelines/words of inspiration for the year.
Today we did some introduction activities, visited Shellie in French class, helped get the gym set up for the year by moving some items around, and did some reflective talk on our summers. Tomorrow will get us right down to work. I promised the class that if we work hard...we will play hard. Tomorrow we will put that to the test.
Each student has a brown bag homework assignment. They need to bring in five items (in the bag) that reflect themselves in some way, and share them with the class. This is due tomorrow! (but is meant to be fun...so no pressure really.
I learned a lot about the class today. I know all about family camps, house pet names (Mickey?), book reading challenges, scrabble champions, and more. I think it will shape up to be a really interesting year with this group.
Please note the date and time of next weeks family meeting for parents, in room 308, at 6:00pm. There is a CASC meeting afterwards in the school.
The quote for today was 'Don't wait for the perfect moment - take the moment, and make it perfect'....and today was pretty close to a perfect first day thanks to this great group of learners.
Now for day 2!
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