Benjamin's King Of The Week Presentation About Knights

Don't mind myself looking all strange, I was not thinking that I was in the video, and I was keeping up with Benjamin in case he would loose track of where he was. He did wonderful, and we were very proud of him! 

Benjamin's Family Presentation

Royal Treatment "God Save Our King"

King Of The Week - Benjamin

This handsome little boy got the honor as one of the first ones to become the King of the Week in the class. That's an honor that is earned with hard work, always turning in your homework neat and in time, but also showing respect and being a great citizen in and out of the classroom.

He got to present a poster about himself on the Friday and so did the Queen of the week, that this week was his classmate Fiana. As another thing to being a King or Queen, they also need to prepare a speech and have a presentation about something that interest them and that is informative to the class. They can't just bring a toy and say that this is my Transformer...it has to be a little bit more educational than that.

Benjamin's poster

The King in his full glory!

Benjamin choose to hold a presentation about Knights and he brought his armor, his helmet, shield and sword to show and to speak about how someone became a Knight.

He has a book about Knights, and he knew it almost by heart, and talked about famous Knights, that the little boys had to help and work for the big Knights, what they were wearing and how for protection and where they lived. The kids loved it and he really impressed the teacher with this presentation! Great job Ben!!

After the presentation, the parents were invited to have "tea" with the King and Queen at the castle! A little table and plastic cups were set up for the occasion and as you can see, we had company of the British Royal Family on the pictures in the background.

I hope that I can get the movie clips up that Chris were able to take from his presentation. If so, it will be in the following post.

Constitution Day

 

We do so many presentations and performances in First Grade, and I have had a hard time keeping up posting about it. But, as I do take the pictures,  I will try to post them, as I'm sure it will be fun especially for the kids to look back to one day!

So, on September 17th, we had our Constitution Day, and our teacher has lots of costumes, and several parents came in to dress up and read to the kids about special American things/events regarding this holiday.

I also had the honor to bake 25 little star cakes that the kids could decorate in the US colors.

Benjamin had a big trophy on his desk, as he was the Star Student of the Week that week, but more about that later in another post.

All About Apples In September

Like I wrote earlier, we have had a lot going on in First Grade this year, and even if it's posts that should have been posted in the fall, I'm trying to atleast get them on the blog, for my documentation and so that family members can take part of their activities and performances.

In September, it was all about apples. We had the Johnny Appleseed performance, that I posted earlier, and we had lessons about apples, and we made apple pies together with the kids, that we then took home to bake and enjoy with the family.

Apple tasting

 "Johnny Appleseed" showed up to our Apple party in the classroom too!

 Making apple pies!

 Working those big (hard plastic) knifes to cut the slices into pieces..

 

 Brown sugar & Cinnamon...

 Ready to take home to bake!

As room mom, I ended up baking a few extra pies to bring back to school!

Isabella and Benjamin were excited to find their pies already bakes when they came home from school, and they were ready to have some for afternoon snack. Added vanilla ice cream to make the most of it! Very much appreciated!