The Important Thing About Speaking

  

Our class has read Margaret Wise Brown's 'The Important Book' the past week. The book has a regular pattern that we recognize and have been finding the important things about ideas in our lives, following the same pattern. 

We have used the inspiration that everyone is unique and have drawn our self portraits! We are certainly proud of how each and every one of us is like no one else and that we all have things that make us special. We also have met our Learning Buddies and shared with them 'The Important Thing About Me' with an All About Me poster. 

The Grade 1/2 Busy Bees have been discussing what good speakers do when we share our thinking with others. Mrs. Herbert has demonstrated what maybe speakers shouldn't do in a bit of a funny example with her 'Me Bag’ sharing. From that, we created a list of what we think good speakers do and created a new page for the book 'The Important Book':

We hope this helps as we prepare for our special 'Me Bag’ sharing that is coming up soon! Information came home today to start gathering our three special items and practice what we want to share following our ideas above. Looking forward to hearing what is important to each and every student to get to know them better!