- Morning routine: Move our rock to "here today" in the hallway upon arrival (students will soon start being in charge of attendance!)
- Unpack backpack-Check BEE Folder (if anything is in it put it in Mrs. Eagan basket), but BEE Folder in the basket
- Lunch/water bottle in cubby or make lunch choice
- Hang back pack up
- Find a table spot and explore and create with morning tubs and visit with friends
- Transitions: We use songs to help us move from one thing to the next. Once at the carpet we start our day with a morning song. Throughout the day we do a "brain break" to get our wiggles out. We learned to push our chairs in and be responsible for our materials.
- Community Circle: How we start our day! We use our speaker voice when talking and we are listening to our friends if we don't have the 'talking piece.'
- "Give Me 5!" when this is said we know an adult needs our attention: EYES are watching, EARS are listening, HANDS are free, BODY is still, MOUTH is quiet.
- Bathroom: Use a level '0' voice, one pump of soap, wash hands good, shake them off in the sink, dry with paper towel and get a drink if they wish!
- Relax & Recharge: Put lunch boxes away, get towel/blanket/mat and find the best spot for them and journal or relax. We do yoga after to get us ready for math!
- End of Day: Check mailbox, put papers on the 'keep at home' or 'return to school' side of BEE folder, put lunchbox and folder in backpack
Writing: We read "Rocket Writes a Story" and had an intro to Writer's Workshop starting next week! We talked about how we can tell stories through pictures, words and letters. We also did our first self-portrait and name writing (we'll do this monthly to see changes!).
Math: We had an introduction to Math Workshop. Talked about how we'll do a lesson together and then go off to stations. This week we explored math manipulatives and did some work with #'s 1-8. We'll continue next week looking more at #'s 5-10 and will have stations to support our exploration with manipulatives and number sense.
Social Skills: We were introduced to PRIDE this week! We talked a little about it each day and next week we'll dive into each letter one each day--the whole school will! We talked about problem solving, how to be friends, safe and fun recess games and how to express ourselves in a nice tone of voice when talking to friends. Kindergarten is going to really work a lot with social emotional learning this week so stay tuned as we start diving in more after PRIDE week!
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