Super Readers Parade!

Today was one of the best days ever for your smart kids in kindergarten! To culminate our Super Powers Reading Strategies Unit, our entire school gathered together this afternoon to cheer for kindergarten as we paraded throughout the school. All students and staff came to cheer for your Super Readers, and it was absolutely adorable. Many of the big kids - including our third grade buddies in Mrs. Williams' Class - make posters for us and were high fiving the kids as we walked by. Of course, the Super Readers had to dress the part, so we turned the t-shirts you sent in a few weeks ago into Super Reader capes and added a mask and medal, too! Hope you enjoy these pics of your Super Readers!

Play = Learning

In kindergarten, we value time for play and try to embed it in our teaching and learning activities. Enjoy some photos of our play today...we were missing four classmates today, but we will catch some photos of them engaged in play soon!

Play isn’t all fun and games — it’s also an important teaching tool! Through play, kids learn how to interact with others and develop critical lifelong skills.  - www.thegeniusofplay.org

Make sure to check out this awesome site about the great benefits of play and get some fun ideas for play at home, too. 

Lead Time

Today was our first time having Lead Time. During Lead Time, our entire school participates in various leadership opportunities. In grades 3 through 5, it becomes a little more personalized for each child; however, in kindergarten, first and second grades, we engage in leadership more collectively. For our kindergarten Lead Time, we are working on making posters to eventually create a collective production to teach incoming kindergarten students and families about The 7 Habits of Happy Kids.
For our first Lead Time, we switched classes (our class went to Mrs. Hunn's classroom), and talked about Habit 2 - begin with the end in mind. They read a story and discussed the habit, then started creating posters to include in our presentation about the habits. We also had third graders working with our class as part of their individualized leadership opportunities. It was a great day!