Teacher from Germany, 3 weeks since the first grade began learning:   Children got the next task to work in their "Apple notebooks." Without any instructions, they began working in pairs on their own. Couple classes before, I explained them how to work in pair: both work on the task written on one page of "Apple notebook"; when task is accomplished, change the partner in pair. To do so, the pair who finished their work go to the blackboard, and form new pairs with next available pair.

I thought that it was a short time since the school year beginning, so I was pleasantly surprised that children immediately started working in pairs properly, and properly changed the partners. Moreover, they wanted to fill the control sheet on their own, because they saw before how I market accomplished tasks in this sheet.