Sunday, August 30, 2015

First Week of School Reading and Writing!

It seems like the first week of school flew by so fast! There was a LOT of stuff going on this first week. We colored and drew pictures, cut and matched pictures, played games, talked with friends, painted, put our names in order and practiced writing and tracing our names.



On the carpet, we talked with each other about our favorite part of the day, what we did over the summer, and what our favorite rotation class is during morning buzz book. 



Drawing the cover to his all about me books





Coloring pictures to match after they cut them out

Matching pictures they cut out at a different table

Cutting out pictures to match at the next table

Drawing the cover to his all about me book

Drawing her cover for her all about me book

Playing rhyme concentration

Playing rhyme concentration

Playing rhyme concentration

Playing rhyme concentration




Tracing names


Tracing Names

Drawing their families for their all about me books

Drawing their favorite foods for their all about me books



Painting Elmers after reading Elmer by David McKee


Painting Elmers

Coloring their favorite colors for their all about me books

Coloring her favorite color for her all about me book


Looking for the letters to their names in the alphabet cereal
Gluing down the letters in her name after finding them in the alphabet cereal
Gluing down the letters in her name after finding them in the alphabet cereal

Our First Day of School!

This first week of school went by so fast, but the first DAY of school went by even quicker! I got some pictures of the kids while we did our getting to know you game and drank our jitter juice.


The first day of school is spent doing a lot of learning new rules and procedures and some cutsie crafts to take home. The very first thing we do in the morning is go to rotation as soon as breakfast is over. So, after our hour and a half rotation, we came back to the room, did our date, day, month and year on the calendar, buzz book, then played a getting to know you game with balloons! Each balloon had a different question in it that the kids answered after they popped it.












































 After our getting to know you balloon game, we read The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn and made a Kissing Hand card to take home and read with our families.






















When the afternoon hit, we read First Day Jitters (which is always fun because they never guess it's the teacher with first day jitters!) and talked about what jitters are and some times that we may have jitters. After our story, we made jitter juice to help our jitters go away. It worked!





After we finished our jitter juice snack, the kids played in free centers for the rest of the afternoon until it was time to go home. To pick their free center, they use our Center Spinner that's on the board. They can only go to a center once each week, so if they've already been to that center, the have to spin again. That way, everyone gets a chance to visit all of our centers.