First day of school!

Wow! What an amazing first day! We had a great day getting to know each other and what we did over the summer holidays.

To start off we participated in a name game to learn each other's names and some interesting facts about each other. I am very excited that I have a class of such active students!

The students then went to Physical Education with Mrs. Jans.

When the students returned from PE we created our desk name cards with a picture to describe themselves. As they showed off their artistic side I helicoptered around to the students to ask them what their picture means to them and why they drew it.

Afterwards we completed an "All About Me" activity in which students anonymously filled out a sheet and then used a coloured pencil to guess who it belonged to in our class. I was quite stumped on a lot of sheets!

Then we had first lunch and recess.

After recess the students had Music with Mr. Oliver.

And then it was time for the House Games! It was an intense battle of musical chairs with students representing all grades in the PYP and MYP program. There was a great deal of team spirit and sportsmanship displayed throughout the games. Kappa came out the winner for the students and Theta took home for the teachers!

Then we had second lunch and recess.

After recess we joined with Miss Jasolka's class to participate in some more icebreaker activities. We played a game called "The wind blows west..." where students were able to share what they did in the summer, hobbies, likes and dislikes.

When we came in, we co-constructed our classroom rules and were inspired by Kid President! The students came up with rules and we put together a contract which everyone signed.

To finish off the day we started to create a birthday card. We did not get to finish but the idea for this is that when it is someone's birthday they will get a card that another classmate made on their special day!

The agenda for today was: 
-Bring in headphones for listening to reading
-Read for 20 minutes
-All about me bag

Since we did agendas in the morning there were some additional forms sent out later that included the Fall Fiesta, and trip letter!

Have a restful night! See you tomorrow!

Cheers!