We have had so much fun introducing Brooks Martino to the class.
We told them a couple of weeks ago when we found out that we have been
accepted into the College Champions program that we would have the opportunity
to meet a college athlete and work with them over the next few months.
This was the last time we mentioned the program to them, until today!
We went about our morning as normal.
When we finished our Guided reading Groups, we told the kids that we were
going to play a game of Hang Man. Which they were excited about because
we have never played a game of Hang Man prior to this. They were all
trying to guess what the words were going to be, many of them assumed that we
would use the spelling words for this week. How wrong they were! It
was exciting to see them getting excited about guessing letters and realizing
that were clearly weren't using this week’s spelling words. Once they
guess all of the letters and saw Brooks' name on the SmartBoard, they were
confused at first, but then one of the scholars mentioned "Oh, is this the
college thing," and that sparked some memories of what we told them weeks
ago.
As you can see in the pictures below,
Brooks is a sentence strip stick figure. He lives on the chalkboard ledge
and will have inspiring words for the scholars from time to time! The
kids found it hysterical that we had a stick figure in our room and they
couldn't wait to take pictures with him! There was some stiff competition
for who would get to hold Brooks during the picture, the winner was chosen by
drawing sticks. The lucky winner was beyond excited!
This month's goal aligned perfectly to
what we have been working on throughout this school year with our kids.
We talk all the time about setting meaningful goals for themselves, both
academically and life goals. (LA.1.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.8) We just got new whiteboards (Yay!) and this
was the first time we used them. Each scholar wrote their personal goal
on the write board and we shared them and took a photo!
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