On Monday, our word of the day was on respect. My students did an amazing job writing about respect in their journals. Today was the day that I described our final project, our report to my students. I told them that their report is going to have to inform others about why and how good citizenship can affect our community. We also went on an informational poster walk through the school. They had so much fun finding all of the informational posters that are all around the school, when they saw something that could be an informational poster they would have to raise their hand. I even had them take pictures of the posters that we saw! This will hopefully help them when it comes time to start our report writing and illustration next week. My plan is to have all of my students type their report and then we will bind them all into a classroom book. We will see how this plan goes!!
On Tuesday, our word of the day was kindness. My students are really starting to get the hang of their journal writing!! They have been taking great pride in their work, especially now that I have figured out how to add amazing graphics to the collages and they all want to get their picture taken with their work now, I only choose the top 3 or 4 for each topic. We talked about how we feel when others show us kindness. This lesson worked well and was a great starting point for our talk about Random Acts of Kindness!!
On Wednesday, our word of the day was caring. This was a word that my students came up with for our journals! Our writing for today was very similar to our writing from Tuesday because of how similar our words were but at least they know what our word means. This is also my favorite day of our LDC project so far! Our entire day was around the them Spreading Random Acts of Kindness! We found a book SPRAK! on www.readinga-z.com that is an amazing story! After each "chapter", I had my students tell me the random act of kindness that was featured in it. I have had many amazing donors to my projects on www.donorschoose.org. Many of the donations to my projects have been random acts of kindness, I have never met these donors but yet they believe in my projects and want to help my students succeed! This is an amazing organization, so I had the idea that as a class, we would spread our own random act of kindness to one of the projects on DonorsChoose! It was so cute to see my students as we tried to pick a project!! If you have ever done a project on DonorsChoose, it is true that your profile picture and you quick 1 sentence write-up on what your students need is very important. My students were so quick to say "NO" based on the picture or that write-up. I guess I'll have to have my students screen my upcoming projects before I submit them.
Next week our project takes a turn and we start to focus on our end result, a report describing how being a good citizen will affect your community. I've never done a report before with first graders so I know that next week is going to be an adventure! Also we will get to see our butterflies!
Tomorrow is Friday!!
Amber
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