Getting to know each other and the school surrounding is vital to a successful beginning of the school year. As students begin to feel more confident and comfortable with their new school surroundings, they start to become more confident and comfortable with academic learning as well. The Back to School unit provides great opportunities for students to become aware of their surroundings, including who their peers are and what the term “school” encompasses. It is important to incorporate several different hands-on activities that help students engage in learning about their new peers and school environment. In this we try to include a variety of learning activities such as a self-portrait activity to learn more about classmates, a sorting activity to learn about different places in the school and what is found there, as well as a SmartBoard activity where writing becomes incorporated into learning about classmates. Self Portraits - Whole GroupSelf-portraits are a great way to show individuality and creativity in the classroom. To begin, students will be given a template to take home in order to decorate to represent themselves. Parents are encouraged to help children complete this project which will be shared with the class (Parent Letter). As students begin bringing their decorated self-portrait back, the class learns about one classmate each day. The chosen student will have the opportunity to share their self portrait and have classmates ask further questions to learn more about the student. This information will then be used to create a biography about the chosen student. The teacher will use the information gathered to write the biography. Students will create their own illustration of that student to be included in the final copy of the biography.
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