I'm now a Kindergarten teacher at Lafayette Elementary in Oxford! I am so excited to be back closer to home and to have the sweet kinders that I have. I am trying my best to update this blog weekly for my parents to look and see what we are doing in our class and to see how their children are progressing.
We started on a Friday this year, so that day was spent learning how all of our babies work together and rules and procedures. Then, last week was pretty much spent doing the same thing! The students are really getting the hang of our classroom and how it works!
This past week we have been reading Chrysanthemum and working on activities with our names! I have 19 sweet babies and all of their names are so special! This book is a great book to show with students that no matter what their names are, they are special and no one can take that away!
In the book, the classmates of Chrysanthemum's were mean to her about how her name sounded. They bullied her because it was different and was longer spelled than their names. We talked about how students need to be nice to their friends and how when you say something mean, you can't take it back. We used our heart to demonstrate this and will hang it up in our room for the remainder of the year!
Before you speak
think and be smart
it's hard to fix
a wrinkled heart.
During one of our centers, our kiddos paint dotted their names and we use it for a decoration on one of our front boards. Hopefully as we begin to practice writing, the kids will use the board to write each other's names.
After working with our names for a few days, the students make rockets with the number of squares that they have in their name. They had to write their name, count the letters and get that many squares to do the craft. These turned out really cute!
On Friday we read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and the kids loved seeing the letters all come together. They got to put the tree together based on the front cover of the book and then were able to put the letters on the tree to make their name. They turned out so cute!
I can't wait to see what this next week brings!
Kindergarten is so fun and TIRING at the beginning of the year! :)
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