Kindergarten had another busy week. In math, we’ve begun our work with patterns, concentrating on unfix cubes to start. The children have been enjoying the challenge of AB, AAB, and ABC patterns thus far! This week, we’ll continue our work with unifix cubes, and then move on to making patterns in different ways.
We wrote another class book, this one based on Eric Carle’s Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Our book uses the children’s names, and we’ve made it a circular story with no covers, so that you can read it by starting on any page. This novel feature appealed to the class alot!
We have finally completed the process of edstablishing ourclassroom rules, so that everyone’s Hopes and Dreams can come true. From “19 Good Rules,” which later turned into “19 Better Rules,” we have distilled those into “3 Great Rules:”
1. Keep your body safe.
2. Be nice to everybody.
3. Take good care of our stuff.
This process, although lengthy, really helps to give the children ownership over the kind of classroom they want to have, and helps them tailor their behavior to meet the expectations we’ve set together. This is a basic part of Responsive Classroom, and the class did a great job this year creating rules they can all follow. Well done!
We had our first fire drill on Thursday. We had advance notice on this one, and the children did a great job following directions and walking quietly to the berm.
We’re going to spend a lot of time next week getting ready for Grandparent’s Day, reading some wonderful stories together and making some special projects to share.
That’s it for now!
