Character Rocks!

Back to school for another Monday... We started our morning with a discussion on Readers Workshop. Today we mainly just talked about proper ways to sit on the carpet during Readers Workshop: Sitting Flat, Facing Forward, Hands in Lap, Ready to Learn.

We also began our study of Johnny Appleseed by reading a book about him and discussing who he was and what he did. He was introduced as a character, our vocabulary word for the week in Social Studies. We've defined character as a person or animal that is in a story.

We reviewed the characters and colors from Brown Bear and without my prompting, the class read me the story. After recess we reviewed day and night, covering a math standard which requires students to know the times of the day. Children created their own charts showing things they like to do in the day and in the night.

After lunch, we attended the Character Rocks! Assembly, which revolved around the six pillars of the Character Counts Program. (www.charactercounts.org) : Trustworthiness, Responisibility, Respect, Fairness, Caring, Citizenship. We did a conga line, the chicken dance, and played "Good Choice, Bad Choice, My Choice"