All About Me! {Presentations, that is!}

Hello Again!

Building a sense of community is one of the most important things to do in the classroom.  Letting students share about themselves and learn about others is one of the best ways to do this! 

Each Wednesday morning after the announcements {starting about the 3rd week of school}, we have an All About Me presentation.  Each child has a week assigned to them.  The students LOVE this time!  The presentations last about 10-15 minutes and during this time the students family members come and watch the student tell the class about themselves - from what their favorite food is to what their favorite color is to who their favorite sports team is to introducing the class to their family members, etc.  The students create a poster at home with all of these favorites on them and the student uses this poster to guide his/her presentation.

After this presentation, the class creates a book for the student.  The book consists of a page from each classmate about what he/she learned about the week's presenter. The students love writing all about their classmate!  It is also great because it is a time which the students are often using common words such as "like," "favorite," "color," "is," "has," etc.  So it works perfect to make sure that the kids are spelling those words the conventional way. {If that is something you are working on ;)}.  After we finish the book, I read it to the class.  

Note: Sometimes, the kids want to write more than what fits on just one page - I let them write as many pages as they want they just have to put their name on each one and a picture on each one too.

I uploaded a copy of the pages for the book here.  

Happy Tuesday!

Andrea