Reviews for What Did You Do Today?: The First Day of School

The average rating for What Did You Do Today?: The First Day of School based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-12-08 00:00:00 Shelley Biscaino The First Day of School was a great take on some of the experiences that children may face on their first day of either going back to school or starting school for the first time. I think that this story would be a great circle time/group reading book for children in KS1. Children could use this story to talk about how they felt when they had to leave their Mum or Dad when they came to school. The story focuses on the perspective of a young boy who retells his whole day through his point of view; from making sandwiches with his Mum in the morning, all the way through the day into hometime, when he puts on his coat and is thinking about his Mum. The layout of this story was really clever as they had pictures of the little boy's day on the left, and while he was describing his day, they put pictures of what his Mum was doing at that point in time on the right hand side of each page, for example, when the little boy is having his break-time and eating biscuits and drinking milk, his Mum is also on her break drinking tea and eating biscuits, and when the little boy sits down and tries to do his very best writing, his Mum is on the phone and typing on the computer in her office. Aside from being a story used during circle time or group reading, this could also be a good way for children to try and create their own stories using the format of The First Day of School, and to get them to try and think about what their Mums and Dads are doing while they are at school.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-09-22 00:00:00 Scott Sorenson This is really the only book we've read about starting school that addresses the idea that the parents will also miss the kid and think about how they are doing all day long. The girls and I both found that interesting.