This morning, we continued learning about rules, safety, and being a good student. We started with a RAZ Kid reader entitled: Safe, Not Safe. Danny first listened to the one-sentence pages and then we read the pages together. This book gave us examples of safe and unsafe situations in similar settings. For example, a safe street for kids to play (with no traffic) and an unsafe street (with lots of cars). We discussed why each was safe and not.
Next, we watched a Brain Pop Jr learning video entitled, School. In this video, Annie and Moby explained that we have rules at home and school to help keep us safe and respect others. A community is comprised of a group of people working together. A school is a community. Danny scored 4/4 on the modified follow up easy quiz. Additionally, we started our Florida Studies Weekly social studies curriculum program. Our first booklet, Welcome to First Grade, gave us a quick overview of school with the pledge, reminders on working with others, and a review of the American flag. We had fun finding the picture that doesn't belong (school and playground items) as well as a color by number of the American flag on the activities page. He scored a 4/4 on the follow up assessment. We enjoyed two books about the precocious young boy David in No David! and David Goes to School by David Shannon. In these fiction texts, we see funny little David breaking rules and being unsafe. We discussed his choices and what would have been better choices. David always receives love and praise from his mom and teachers after his crazy naughty adventures! Finally, we continued in the interactive notebook that we are creating by beginning to write about "rules at school ". We cut and colored our display window and Danny wrote the first of his four school rules. He decided on, "no chewing gum" as his first rule.