{"id":2282,"date":"2023-09-03T07:17:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T14:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:21:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T14:21:32","slug":"pickles-plants-and-pictures-first-days-of-first-grade-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/2023\/09\/pickles-plants-and-pictures-first-days-of-first-grade-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickles, Plants, and Pictures: First Days of First Grade Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWho wants to take a risk and read this aloud?\u201d First grade readers and writers this week dived into sharing goals for their own growth this school year, after a read-aloud discussion of the book, <em>A Letter From Your Teacher<\/em>, by Shannon Olsen. Thinking about their own hopes and dreams for the year ahead, students brainstormed as a group, spoke in pairs, and then did an independent writing\/drawing assignment about their personal goal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll become a reader.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to earn more warm fuzzies.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy goal is to make a 3-pointer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their hopes ranged from social to academic and mindsets-related, and included intentions to make progress in everything from baseball and Lexia to being more curious and a better friend. Later on Thursday, they also completed a drawing and writing task about their first few moments in school. Following prompts like <em>this is me, this my classroom, this is how I feel, this is something fun I did\u2026<\/em> students filled each box with letters, words, and \u201cwow pictures\u201d to share about their days so far in 1st grade. I listened as they excitedly discussed both their content as well as strategies to do their best work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI remember you like pickles!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe plants are my favorite part of this room.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another child offered this advice to peers: &#8220;You should always start with pencil because that&#8217;s an example of how you start.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>You should always start with pencil because that&#8217;s an example of how you start.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Students from the beginning are practicing writing and reading for genuine purposes of storytelling and listening, for envisioning possibility, and for presenting their best work. We can\u2019t wait to help them achieve their dreams this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWho wants to take a risk and read this aloud?\u201d First grade readers and writers this week dived into sharing goals for their own growth &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curriculum-connections","category-english"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/pickles-and-plants-1.png?fit=1020%2C764","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}