It was so much fun to meet all of my kindergarteners in my class and get the year started! It was also really nice to meet the parents during our Open House night! I'm really excited that our class is already on a roll and already working!
This week consisted mainly of repeating various school and classroom procedures over, and over, and over again! I saw a huge improvement over the week and so did many other teachers! By Friday, we were getting so many compliments in the hall on how well we walked!
One of the coolest things I saw this week was how much fun these kids had during our math time! This week I had students each adding a page to a few class books we did. One of the class books we created were how many people were in our family. I had students draw their families and were able to tell me about their families. We used that concept later that day during math time when I asked students to write their name on post-it notes and place on a graph showing how many family members students had in their family. The kids got so excited when we added names because it felt like a competition between the numbers! I was excited that the kids were enjoying this time, doing "math talks" in complete sentences, and understanding all of the "mini-lessons" that came from our time!
I look forward to all of the other fun lessons we have! I also introduced "silly-brations" from teachertipster.com this week and my kindergarteners had a blast with performing them after earning them as a class!
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