Presenting, Parties and Parks.
11/2/2018
At PNA we our mission statement is that; "We educate students to be exceptional learners and independent thinkers of vision, courage, and integrity." As part of our Teal Pumpkin Project we discussed and decided that one way to raise awareness of Teal Pumpkins in our school is to go and present to the other classes and inform them of the Teal Pumpkin Project and invite them to participate in a competition to win their own Teal Pumpkin. 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! Finally, to round off our busy week, we had another trip to the Library. This was to return the books we had previously borrowed and to choose 3 more books each to lend and bring back to our classroom library for us to use and explore together. It's great to see how excited each child gets about their new books, showing them off in the car and then reading them together in the class. Hopefully this continues and each child develops a lifelong love of reading and books.
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Hali TuomiMs. Tuomi has over five years experience in ASD, where she taught first and fifth grade classrooms. An avid skier, Ms. Tuomi is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Alaska Pacific University’s Bachelor of Arts in K-8 Education. Archives
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