Toot Your Flute Day!

Did you know today is National Toot Your Flute Day?

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I am SO thankful that Nate's mom shared this with me:

"October 4th, International Toot Your Flute Day, was intended as a day for shameless self-promotion. No need for modesty, tell everyone how great you are. Celebrate your strong points and take credit for the great things you do. Self-promotion doesn't have to be "bragging."

The students and I had a great conversation about celebrating your strengths vs. bragging... 
and then we got to tooting our own horns a little. : )

I asked the students to share something that they are really great at doing:

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Here are the students sharing their strengths:

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Wordless Wednesday (Why I Love Kindergarten)

Mo Willems Fun

We have had a great time studying the work of Mo Willems!

Here are some of the fun "Mo inspired" things that we did last week:

pastel pigeons

Favorite pieces from our drawing unit/Mo Willems study:

favorite Mo characters graph 

after graphing, we drew our favorite character in our Reading Notebooks

favorite Mo book graph

speech and thought bubbles

pictures from our Writing Celebration/Hot Dog Party:

Happy Birthday, Mr. Weber!

This week we helped our Principal, Mr. Weber, celebrate his birthday!

The students were so sweet as they decorated a birthday banner for Mr. Weber. Many of them drew characters from the books we have been enjoying.

As we played on the playground for recess, students had the choice to sneak into the room and add to the banner. ALL of the students did, of course! : ) When I asked Kate if she was going to come in and add to the banner she said, "Of course! We need to fill Mr. Weber's birthday bucket!"

Mr. Weber, we hope you had a great birthday! 

P.S. Thanks for visiting us during Writer's Workshop.