The Friday Five--Week One

Woo hoo!  We finished our first week of kindergarten.  Here are some highlights of what we did this week:

1.  We spent a lot of time learning about procedures and rules.  One of our favorites was hearing the story of a monster coming to school.  As a class we worked on deciding what should happen at school and what should never happen at school.  We had a green line, and we decided which behaviors should be above the line, or the desired actions, and which ones should be below the line. We'll use this as a reference for our own behavior.

We had a little help learning about how not to behave from our friends Pigeon and David:

Today we started our clip chart.  We clip up when we are doing above the line behaviors, and we clip down when we make a choice that is below the line. Look in your child's folder for a description of the behavior plan.

2.  We read a lot of poems and books.  Ask your child which of these was a favorite!

3.  We're making new friends and learning about cooperation.  Ask your child which of these activities was his or her favorite!

4.  This year we'll be learning what it takes to be a leader.  Leaders have certain characteristics or habits.  We talked about Habit #1 today:  Be Proactive.  We read The Little Engine that Could this morning and we were on the look-out for the character who was being proactive. Ask your child which character was proactive. We thought of ways to be proactive ourselves:

Then we danced away to this song:

5. What was our favorite thing this week?  Check out the video we made:

Those are the highlights for this week!  What will next week bring?