Up and Running!

"This is me. I'm in the garden." ~ Sofia

We just completed our first day of the school year, with great enthusiasm and energy!

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES
Getting acquainted with our classroom. We began with plenty of exploration, locating learning materials, and establishing basic safety precautions for taking care of each other and our learning environment.

One motto of a good classroom environment is "A place for everything and everything in it's place." Our class was remarkably cooperative when it came to clean-up time once we explained, "We put things back where they go SO YOU KNOW WHERE TO FIND IT AGAIN." We'll be explaining this on a daily basis several times.

DO try this at home. It works...eventually!


TODAY'S STORY
Who Shares?, by Ewa Lipniacka, illustrated by Jane Massey. Jack and Georgina are two siblings who do not like to share. So when Mom says they must, they decide to do it in their own way. Georgina shares a worm with Jack (by dropping it in his pants, and Jack shares his peas with Georgina (by flinging one at her). This interpretation of Mom's request is unconventional in the least, especially when they share the chicken pox! But in a sweet, funny surprise ending, they eventually discover something wonderful that they already share - their Mom!