![]() Sing some songs from my Letters and Sounds DVD to help them learn the alphabet. Review rules with Wiggles Learns to Pay AttentionĦ. My job share partner and I decided to go ahead and start doing a group rotation with the children on our third day of school! This is earlier than I usually do it, but since there was going to be two of us (plus our aide!) in the room all week long, it seemed like a good time to start it.Ĥ. ![]() One of the kids asked for it by name on day three! I’m so glad that we had time to sing these songs today! The kids especially liked the When the Bell Rings, Freeze! song. Sing I Can Follow the Rules and When the Bell Rings, Freeze! from my Music For Classroom Management. This second copying sheet is much harder! But you know that the kids that can do it really have some skills. All of the portfolio papers that we do are free downloads at the indicated link. This is similar to the first paper, but with slightly harder shapes and figures to copy. No bus riders this year! One child was absent, and another was not yet enrolled. Then we use return address labels to print out the names of all of the students. I use the same top part of the graph every year (laminated), and tape a piece of construction paper onto the back for the names. We made a bulletin board out of it after school, too! Then the children also graphed how they got to school today.Īs you can see, there are varying levels of ability in my classroom! Art Project: School Bus (AND- It’s free! Click to find it.) Review the Jumpin’ Numbers and Shakin Shapes cards and movements.ħ. Sing some songs from my Letters and Sounds DVD to help them learn the alphabet.Ħ. Review rules with Wiggles Learns the Rules at School.ĥ. To save space and make this go quicker, I am now going to give you the “condensed version.” A lot of the things that we do for the rest of the week are reviews or repetition of what I introduced on the first day of school, anyway.Ĥ. I wanted to read “Wiggles First Day at School” today also, but we spent so much time establishing procedures that it simply wasn’t possible, so I saved it for Tuesday. It was as quick and easy as it always is! I meant to sing some songs from Singable Songs for Letters and Sounds to help them learn the alphabet, but we ran out of time. I introduced the Zoo Phonics letters and sounds to the class. The letters are just taped on, so that they could be changed out later if needed. We purchased the frame at a craft store, and then spray painted it yellow. Need I say more? And BOY, were they ready! My wonderful job share partner Remie took pictures of the children holding the “My First Day of Kinder” frame, and then we posted the pictures on the wall later to make a bulletin board out of them. This gives us an idea of their fine motor and visual perception abilities. The children try to copy the shapes as best they can. I again designated a few toys and some books for them to play with and look at when they were done. You can find out more about that here, all of these pages are free downloads. Then, after they finished their projects, we all sat down on the carpet again and read The Night Before Kindergarten by Natasha Wing, which is one of my favorite books for the beginning of school! The children had just about had it, so we (my new job share partner and I!) sent the children outside for recess.Īfter recess, we had the children do a visual perception shape copying “test.” It’s really just a way to find out what their little eyes can perceive and what their little hands can draw. An adult “frames it” on the colored paper later. The children cut out the face and glue it on the white paper. Then after school I put all of the self portraits on a bulletin board. This is the Self Portrait that my, now ADULT, daughter Katie made on her first day of Kindergarten! ![]() ![]() She is now an art education major can you tell? Below you can see the self portrait that my own daughter made on her first day of Kindergarten, so many years ago! She is now 22 years old, but I keep it in my files as an example to show the children each year. I also designated four different toys that they could play with when they were finished, such as unifix cubes, pattern blocks, alphabet magnets, and books to read. I explained how to do the project and then sent them off to the tables to do it as a whole group.
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