Sea Lion's First Few Days Together
/The Sea Lions had a fabulous first few days together. We are working together to create a strong and mighty community of learners that inspire and support one another every day.
We were silly and serious together. We took crazy photos to include on our birthday wall, we played some rousing games of Down By The Banks and Hula Hoop and Jump Rope Circle, we made slab pencil cups, we began our twice daily meditations together, we shared what we thought it meant to be leaders, we worked together to come up with a beautiful list of what we believe our classroom should look and feel like.
We learned heaps of new things together. We played some tricky and fun whole group math games and learned about how our brains learn math, we dug deeply into sentence structure and worked to fix fragments and run-on sentences, we began using a new writing tool called the PLEASE strategy to help us formulate and organize our ideas and come up with strong topic sentences to use in our autobiographies. We read non-fiction articles about the brain and limbic system and practiced pulling out the main idea and key details within the passage we read.
We played outside together. We spent time enjoying the sunshine and the chance to spend time on our new running turf! The Sea Lions are off to a wonderful start!
