The Rainbow Triad Crayon Box

Dear Mom and Dad:

We had a great first day back! We got right into the flow of things and started the morning with Daily 5. Our class is getting much better with remembering what our jobs are during daily 5.

We have a new student teacher in our triad. Her name is Mrs. Catsorellis and she is a first year student from the University of Calgary. We love having student teachers as we help them learn what it takes to become a teacher and they also get to work with students in small groups.

In the afternoon we had lots of discussion around what it means to be a leader. We played a game where there was a detective and they had to guess who the leader was. The leader would make up some patterns using their hands and the rest of the class would have to copy the leader. The detective then comes in and tries to guess who the leader was. Have a discussion with me of what it means to be a good leader and what it means to work well in a team. Our teachers told us that it is tricky to be a good leader and even adults would agree!

At the end of the day we worked in groups to draw a rainbow. Each group received a bag with supplies. It wasn't long until we realized that some bags had paper, and some and none. Some bags had only purple and orange crayons and some bags only had green and red. Eventually we realized that we need to work together and share the materials! It's easy for us to talk about what it means to work as a community but it's harder to show it through our actions. Today we definitely were able to "practice what we preach!" Hooray!

We read a book called "The Crayon Box That Talked". Ask me to tell you what this book was about.

Question of the day: Post on the blog something you learned about community building today.It could be what you learned after listening to the story "The Crayon Box That Talked", or from the game we played.

Love,

The Rainbow Triad