This week has been full of review, expectations and meeting new friends. We had around 40 new-to-our-district students this year. That's a huge number for us.
My beginning of the year classes usually involves seating charts, classroom expectations. I've been teaching at West Marshall long enough now that it usually goes very quick. That allowed us for some time to play.
3rd, 4th, and 5th grades had time at the end of class to play a game we've played before. "Let us chase the squirrel" is a very easy song to learn and the game is very simple. We reviewed the song and got to the game. 2 students are the tree and 1 student is the squirrel. At the end of the song, the tree raises its branches and the squirrel has to go find a new home as fast as they can. There are always extra squirrels also trying to find a tree (similar to musical chairs).
When all squirrels have a tree we start singing again and go. The game is very fast-paced with little to no downtime. About 10 minutes of this game is enough time to get everyone a chance to be a squirrel.
Below are 5th graders playing on the first day of music. Great first week.
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