Now, personally, like many others, I dread public speaking. Stick me in front of a class of 30 kids, no problem. 100 kids during an assembly? Easy. But in front of a group of peers? No thank you.
So for our small class of 1st Graders to not only speak to their peers in Kindergarten and 2nd Grade about the Teal Pumpkin Project and what we had learned. But also to present and answer questions to 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th 7th and the ‘Big Kids’ in 8th grade. Is a big step and a job well done. Public speaking and presenting is not easy, but it is an important skill to practise and learn and 1st Grade demonstrated a lot of courage and self belief in their presentations.
Wednesday was Halloween and there were some fantastic costumes on display. Instead of our usual morning meeting in the class we instead took part in a whole school morning meeting in the gym, where we did a greet and an activity getting everyone involved. In class we created our own game to play for the day. Class vs Teacher. ‘The No Name Game’ instead of calling each other our normal names we tried to call each other our spooky halloween names instead. It is a lot trickier than it sounds. and going to park. Suffice to say the class won.
On Thursday it was the grand opening of the Middle School park project. As a school we walked along to the park to witness the ribbon cutting and to try out the obstacles that had been built. The middle school did a fantastic job of leading the school in the activities as well as telling us about their park project. It was a little bit cold but luckily we had cookies and hot chocolate waiting for us when we got back to school!
