Today the children worked together to calculate our total minutes read during Week 1. Our class read 2752 minutes and the total for the entire first grade was 11, 494 minutes for the first week of the read-a-thon! The winner of the first week drawing for a $10 gift certificate to Wit and Whimsy was Julia. Before the drawing, one child asked what would happen if someone won twice. I was very proud of the class for deciding (on their own) that they would want to give the gift certificate to someone else. After brainstorming some ideas, they decided that if someone already received a gift certificate, that person would get to pull the next name for the prize. Fabulous idea!
The book swap was a great success! The children were very excited to visit the other classrooms and look at all the books. We will donate any leftover books to a worthy cause.
In honor of St. Patrick’s day, the Bremer School of Irish Dance treated us to an Irish Step Dancing performance. The dance teacher chose Julia, Andrew, Lucy, Ryan and Tate to join the dancers on stage to learn some steps. They did a great job!