We do leave on our Voyage in two days. Yikes! Can it be here already? Here are some things to know:
1. Students should bring their gear to school tomorrow, Tuesday, 8/14. They can bring their daypacks on Wednesday morning. Please make sure they have a sack lunch in their daypacks on Wednesday.
2. Please have your students here at the regular time on Wednesday. We will return to school on Thursday afternoon, in time for normal dismissal at 4:00. Friday is our day of rest.
3. Don't forget to write a note for your child to read Wednesday night. They love finding these in their gear before bed.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Our first week together was great! Here are some pictures of how we spent our time.
You may have heard your child talking about his or her "bucket." We have been reading the book, Have You Filled a Bucket Today? By: Carol McCloud. This book teaches us how we all have an invisible bucket that can be filled or emptied each day, depending on how we treat others and how others treat us. This is our Crew Bucket. We can fill this bucket by making good choices in the classroom. It's a great reminder that we all want to be bucket fillers!
As a Crew, we developed our Crew Norms. We all agreed that we want a safe, caring classroom environment.
After we wrote our thinking about classroom norms on sticky notes, we posted them around the classroom and did a gallery walk to see everyone's thinking.
We practiced "solo" time by writing our feelings, hopes, and dreams in our Adventure Education Journals. We'll continue to add to these journals all year.
In order to ease some nerves about the Voyage, we spent some time getting to know each other better. We conducted interviews to find out what we have in common with each other.
During the Voyage, we'll be working in small groups called "patrols." We got into our patrols to create patrol names and cheers. This was a way for us to learn how to work together, which can be difficult, we found out.
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