A hug magically turns children into First Graders: Kindergarten teacher Barbara Sagen gathers the children around her, and together they remember many of the magical things they have shared during the year. On the last day of school, they remember being the āThree Billy Goats Gruffā and other animals and characters from stories…
End-of-Year Family Ritual:
Parent volunteers trace and cut out a set of wings from railroad board for each child. “After the children paint their wings with bright colors and designs (and sometimes feathers and glitter) we attach two elastic straps to hold these on their arms
The Heart of Kindergarten:
Over the years, my kindergarten colleagues and I have shared many vignettes of memorable classroom rituals, traditions, and celebrations. For us, school has always been a ācelebrative place.ā
Accelerate Literacy within a Love of Language
Accelerate language and literacy in your classroom with Nellie Edge Read and Sing Big Booksā¢! They are designed to immerse children in meaningful language that has rhythm, rhyme, and repetition. These traditional English and Spanish folk songs and rhymes will build skills and confidence in students at all stages of language and literacy development, from internalizing the sounds and patterns of language to fluent independent reading!
Invite Parents to Color Big Books and Language Charts
Easy Coloring and Laminating Guide for Black and White Big Books. Unless coloring Big Books is therapeutic for you, we encourage you to enlist volunteer help.
Scientific Writing Begins
Scientific Writing Begins With First-Hand Experiences: Observing Nature, Collecting Leaves, Exploring the Poetry of Leaves, and Reading Fiction and Nonfiction to Build Background Information.
Newsletter Collecting Leaves
We began our study of Fall or Autumn this week. We went for a walk around the Lewelling grounds and found many signs of the season. We found red, yellow, orange, brown, gold and purple leaves.
Our Bird Study Culminates in a Family Research
Children are immersed in bird literature, poetry, songs, dances, and ā of course ā bird watching. Each child selects a bird to study and goes home with an envelope of books for family research. A week later the children return with a book they have written and illustrated about their special bird.
Science Literacy and the Kindergarten Child
All young children deserve to experience a collection of books that they can enthusiastically sing and read from cover to cover ā books that are a part of our shared cultural heritage.
Give Children āI Can Readā Experiences:
All young children deserve to experience a collection of books that they can enthusiastically sing and read from cover to cover ā books that are a part of our shared cultural heritage.