Setting Goals

Welcome back and Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a nice and relaxing break. Since it is the start of a new year, I thought it would be a good idea to focus on goal setting. In first grade, we read the book, Beverly Cleary: She Makes Reading Fun by Patricia Stone Martin. This book is from the Reaching Your Goal series. This is an inspiring book that illustrates the power of perseverance. Beverly was not very good at reading but, with strong determination, she was able to improve her reading and eventually became a famous author! She was able to reach her goal!

Instead of reading Beverly Cleary: She Makes Reading Fun in third grade, we watched a video clip about Ormie the pig instead. This video shows a pig whose goal is to reach cookies on the top of a fridge. With hard work, creativity, and determination, Ormie is finally able to get his cookies! Here is the link for you to watch:

After we read this book, the class brainstormed desired academic goals. Some examples of academic goals from first and third grade were to move up a reading level, to read more books each day, to improve handwriting, to learn how to write in cursive, and to be more respectful on the bus. It was important that we went over realistic and non-realistic goals. For example, we decided that reading 1,000 books per day was probably not realistic. However, reading 3 books per day might be. I was very impressed by the goals that these students created. Our first and third graders came up with excellent, realistic, and attainable goals!

This first grader's goals are to reach reading level Z and to help others. 

Below is the worksheet that third graders worked on:

This worksheet can be found on teacherspayteachers.com. It is by Elementary School Garden.

Have a wonderful rest of your week! 

-Mrs. Bagby J