We are really starting to get the hang of Kindergarten!
Learning Intention:
- Children examine healthy relationships in various learning and playing environments
I Can:
- practice friendship
This past week we continued to learn about and practice our classroom routines and had our first visits to the gym and music room! We also talked lots about 'What's Important' in kindergarten. Here are a few of the ideas that students came up with -
- "Having fun!"
- "I think you need to clean up good."
- "You've got to listen to the teacher."
- "Sharing all the toys...and not making a big mess!"
- "It's important to be nice to everyone."
- "Being a good friend."
Such wonderful ideas and totally bang on too!
We are focusing on building healthy relationships with our own classmates as well as the others in our school community. These relationships are supported through and built on communication, collaboration, empathy and respect...all of which will continue to be a main focus in our kindergarten learning.
We read the story Heartprints by P.K. Hallinan, and talked about what a 'heartprint' was. Students shared their different ideas of how they could leave a heartprint for someone else -
- "I am going to smile at people to make them smile too!"
- "I will help people when they fall down and cry"
- "I'm going to play on the playground with my new friend!"
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All through the day we practiced leaving heartprints for others!
We realized that we could leave heartprints and practice friendship during:
💗 Centers
- sharing materials appropriately
- playing fairly
- including others
- taking turns
- helping each other
💗 Carpet Time
- sharing the sitting space
- taking turns sitting on the stumps and stools
- staying in our own personal space
- keeping our hands to ourself
- looking at the speaker
💗 Snack and Lunch Time
- remembering our manners (please, thank you, excuse me)
- cleaning up after ourselves
- staying safe and keeping others safe (not sharing food, sitting down)
