Wow! What an exciting first few lessons to begin our journey with College Champions. We started late - with the return from holiday break, benchmark testing, the snowstorm, and just the everyday craziness of a first grade classroom, we were down to the wire with finishing our lessons and getting these posts up for all to see!
My co-teacher Ms. Obeck and I wanted to find an age appropriate, interesting, and captivating way to introduce the concept of goal setting to our students before they watched the video from Sonya. While we did not find a video about that, we found a great song about goal setting, doing your best, and being what you want to be that has now be come our theme song for this journey we are beginning! (Find our song here if you'd like to hear it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG3HxrW1qZk) As you will see in the pictures we post, the students in our class love this song and are beginning to learn the words and sing along with it!
After the excitement of discovering a great theme song for our journey, we moved on to the next grand event - meeting Sonya (through her welcome video) and then hearing her first lesson about goal setting. The students were excited to learn about her and from her and just as excited to learn about UPenn, which we found a virtual tour of and shared it with the students.
Sonya challenged our students to come up with a short term goal and a long term goal and three ways to achieve each of them. They all did come up with both, and then drew a picture and wrote about their goals and then we recorded the students reading what they wrote. We had class discussions about why we set goals and why we tell them to others and why they change so much.
We got off to a hectic start....but now that we are started and running at full speed, we can't wait to move on to perseverance and hear what Sonya has to teach us next!
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