That’s the thought I had this afternoon driving home thinking about our day together. Today started with new Weekend News journals and a challenge to try to “label” the picture after drawing. It was tricky, but the children seemed up for the challenge and I am very pleased! 🙂
After reading The Daily Five
, I am excited to be launching this new approach to reading and writing with your students. This is definitely the best teaching book I have read in the last few years and flows well with the Responsive Classroom approach. Today, we learned two ways to read a book – read the words, and read the pictures. The Daily Five has five components – read to self, read to someone, listen to reading, work on writing and word work. I am looking forward to implementing all of these! Stay tuned!
Today was also the day our Marble Jar was filled to the brim! (It had been hovering around the top for about a week now, waiting for those “last two” marbles.) The class earns marbles for showing proper hallway behavior. This afternoon I gave the class three choices for a “marble party.” The choices were: 1. a shaving cream party 2. a movie party (1/2 hour length and my choice) 3. extra computer time in the lab. The children voted on going to the computer lab so we will be going down there one afternoon this week. Exciting!
This afternoon we opened wooden blocks for the first time this year. It was refreshing to see so many friends happily building homes and structures for the animals.
Isn’t Kindergarten fun?
