Today my kindergarteners made 3d shapes in MakerSpace. Some were recognizable pyramids and cubes and some were creations of their own. I loved seeing this focused side of the kids and gaining a new perspective on who they are.
Category: Kindergarten
First Day of School!
In an attempt to get into a regular blogging habit, I'm going to try to post 1 picture and sentence/phrase/word each school day. The posts will be short. And some may not be particularly meaningful. But it will hopefully be a way to document my school year with the great kiddos I met yesterday and …
March Book Madness!
We started our Tournament of Books around the same time that the NCAA Mens and Womens tournaments began. Then we fell wildly behind. While the Villanova men won (they were my choice) and I came in 2nd in our office pool for the 2nd year in a row, we continued to work through our Sweet …
The Global Read Aloud so far
I can't remember exactly how I learned about the Global Read Aloud last year. It's highly likely that my friend Natalie introduced me to it because she's awesome. I loved reading the Lauren Castillo books to my class and we loved connecting in the ways that I was able. This year's K-2 author is Mem …
Mile Run for the Kindergarteners
I love that Coach Jon, our awesome PE teacher, includes the kindergarten class in the K-5 mile run challenge that he does. His high expectations for all of his students perfectly reinforces the kinds of expectations that I try to present and support in the classroom. Last week each K-5 student ran a timed mile …
Bucket Filling For a New Year
I had lots of fleeting ideas for school blog posts over the summer but none seemed to stick. So now the new school year has started, I had my 13th first day of school on August 21st and we are 3 weeks into the wonder that is Kindergarten! We started our Year of Bucket Filling …
Last Kindness Parade of the Year
My voxer, twitter and instagram friend, Karen, taught me about Kindness Parades. In the past, I have loved helping kindergarteners learn about gratitude by sharing holiday greetings with school staff and knew that with Karen's inspiration, we could really up our game. This year, I teach at a small, independent school and my class made and …
#DCSDBLOGS – a week or more late!
The topic of Week 4 of the #dcsdblogs challenge was Tips and Tricks. It was meant to be written April 23-29 and here I am on May 6th. Happy Derby Day! Honestly, I'm not sure I have a lot of tips or any tricks but I've been thinking about expectations. I vaguely remember a Lower …
oops – I’m 125 days behind
Tonight is the last night of Spring Break and I'm happily typing in a not clean house but with lots of veggies prepped in the fridge, a week of kindergarten planned and ready to go and of course, a small snowstorm on the horizon. Spring hasn't really sprung yet in Tahoe, which made last week …
One Good Thing
My Twitter and Voxer friend Megan is leading the charge to encourage teachers in her district (Davenport, IA) to blog. I participated in a chat she helped host last week and feel like I was happily duped into blogging along with these great Iowan educators! This week's prompt is one good thing. What is one …
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