I’m not going to lie, Monday morning I didn’t have the same amount of energy as the kindergarteners, but I eventually woke up. After our normal morning (singing our morning song, reading books, and positivity project) we started our first worksheet of the day. Today it was matching the words with the pictures. Most of the kids did this really well; however, stall was one of the words and that threw some kids for a loop because the picture was a horse in a stall. Since the picture had a horse in it most of the kids were looking for the word horse not shall.
After they finished the worksheet we read the book “blueberries for Sal”. It was a super cute book about a mama bear and baby bear eating blueberries and also a mom and daughter picking blueberries. The book was adorable and also a little longer then picture books so it took a while to read it. Once we read the books we started a project where the kids make a pamphlet with the main idea, setting, characters, etc. Today however the kids only made the cover page. So they folded the painter and wrote the title of the book, their name, and a picture of the characters (picture of a cover below).
Then the kids had lunch at 11 o’clock (which is crazy early if you ask me). Then afterwards they had specials where they just paracted their songs for the concert on the last day of school. After specials they worked on their covers a little more and we had a brain break. The brain breaks change depending on the day but they are usually some sort of yoga or meditation. It gives the kids a break from their school work and also calms them down a little bit. Then we did a little bit of spelling where Mrs. Seyler spelled a word and the kids stood up if they knew what it spelled. Then if they got it right they got a sticker (video below).
YAY MATH! Today for math we played the game where two students go to the board and are asked a question. For example write the number 18 or a word problem that ends with 5 + 3. Today the girls won which was pretty exciting since the boys won on Friday.
All we did after math time was have recess and snack. In conclusion today was an awesome day. It was a lot of fun to hear about the kids weekends and all the fun things we did. It was also exciting because Denim (a kid in the class) ended with a four for effort today (as good as you can do)!!!! We were all super proud of him, he did so good all day today. It wa also interesting because i heard a little bit about the difference between first and kindergarten. Mrs. Seyler told be about the requirements for reading. It is interesting that the strongest teachers are moved to first grade because the students are expected to move up 7 reading levels (they only do 4 reading levels in kindergarten). It was another great day. CAN’T WAIT FOR TOMORROW!!!
