Welcome to Kindergarten

Introducing Palmetto Academy's Class of 2027...

We are two days into the school year and I can already see the greatness that will come from this special group of kids.  The personalities are diverse and the learning levels high!

For the last two days we have focused on procedures and routines.  We will continue to practice, practice, practice until the classroom runs like a well oiled machine.  I'm hoping by the end of our first full week we will begin to function like a true Kindergarten class.

Here are a few pictures from the first two days...

DAY 1

The kids played with Play Doh as we patiently waited for all of our friends to arrive.

I even got a chance to have a picture taken with my own Kindergartener who is next door in Ms. Wyskida's class (my daughter too).

We began our day discussing how to be good listeners.  We charted out a few visuals so we have daily reminders of what to do.

Look with your eyes, listen with your ears, think with your brain and sit criss cross applesauce with hands in your lap - I also threw in a hand to remember to always raise our hand!

 We read a great first day book called First Day Jitters.  We discussed what jitters felt like and all agreed we had them on the first day.  To get rid of our jitters, we made Jitter Juice!

With a show of hands - who liked Jitter Juice???

Who did NOT like Jitter Juice?

We later tallied up our votes...and somehow our pictures didn't reflect our tallies?  Young minds change quickly :)

We also read The Kissing Hand and discussed what our first day feelings were.  We made a special keepsake for our mommies and daddies - I hope you all received yours!

DAY 2

We started learning more about each other by creating an All About Me Book.  We will work on this book for the remainder of next week.

We played a round of Grab a Question where a child grabbed a question from the basket.  I read the question out loud and the child that picked it, answered it.  We also took one of the questions (what is your favorite color?) and graphed our answers to see which color had the most votes and which color had the least votes.  Blue was the favorite!

One of the last activities we did was making our first class book.  We read Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten and discussed the various ways we got ready for Kindergarten.  Each child got their first chance to be an author and an illustrator of our book.  Here are a few example pages from our book...

Our classroom bulletin board in the hallway is finally complete!  Every T-shirt now has a bright Kindergarten smile gracing its front.

Next week we will start our Name Unit and will continue to focus on routines and procedures.  I will also be conducting assessments so we can dive into curriculum ASAP.

Have a great weekend!