New Student!

Yesterday a new student joined our class. This student is a little girl who had just recently moved into the school district from a nearby area. She came to see the school on Monday with her family in order to get her comfortable, but did not start school until Tuesday morning. This was a big shock for her as well as the rest of the class. When she arrived in the morning she was very timid and nervous. Meanwhile, all of the children in the classroom were chatty and excited to meet her. The teacher and I were also extremely nervous. We had so much to do now! We are in the middle of many projects and our goal was to complete them all by the winter holiday break. We didn't know what we would do with her! We started off slowly by setting up all of her notebooks and folders. Then we had all of the children introduce her to the class. They took turns explaining different aspects of the classroom, and how it worked. By the end of the day we had given her a full tour of the building. We also explained how a normal day goes within our classroom. At this point we are just flying by the seat of our pants and taking it day by day!

Vocabulary

1. recently (adverb)- happening shortly in the past.

2. school district (noun)- specific areas of a town that all go to one school.

3. timid (adjective)- shy

4. chatty (adjective)- talkative

5. aspects (noun)- certain part, or section.

6. flying by the seat of our pants (idiom)- to do something without experience or ability.

Activity

1. The students were all very ________ at lunchtime.

2. The _________ is very large compared to other districts.

3. The puppy was very ________ and would not go up to people.

4. One ________ of successful teaching is classroom management.

5. The party was last weekend, it happened _________.

6. When the girls did not know what to do at the new school, they were ____________.

Grammar

This paragraph contains a great deal of nouns. Nouns are defined as people, places, or things. Some examples in this paragraph are; teacher, children, class, girl, school, and building.

Write your own paragraph describing your experience being the new student in class. Use as many nouns as possible!