Week 2: Tuesday

Tuesday, May 17, 2011: 11:50 - 2:45

My day at the New London Kindergarten started off with some swing pushing while other students ran around a slippery playground. Our day inside started with one student telling us all about the trip to Busch Gardens that his family and he just returned from. We heard all about the different animals he saw. We then continued yesterday's theme of families and read Mercer Mayer's book The New Baby. When the book was done we worked with a word family. Today the family we looked at was the -et family. Students took turns coming up with words that fit into the family, wet, met, net, set, jet, ect.. From here we broke for some snack time before a busy day. One boy in the classroom in particular has a hard time always being nice to others and did a few things at the end of snack that were disrespectful to another student. Mrs. James invited me to join the student and her on a walk up to Dr. Johnson's office for a discussion on ways we can work on being a good friend. Dr. J brought up a good point that it is easier to be a good friend than a bad friend because as a bad friend you have to spend time apologizing, writing letters, filling out plans, and in a thinking chair or on the fence. You have to compensate for bad behavior, but not for good behavior. We returned just in time for the end of Daily News before we started practice for the play. The kids marched in and back out, then in again. They did a full run through of the show for the first time, and picked up their dances and chants quickly. At the end of the runthrough there was a quick fast break outside before students came back in for centers. There were 3 centers today. One was word families and writing the words, one was writing the letter X, and mine was using the blocks again. Today in my center we didn't use the example cards but rather I made a pattern for the group to follow. We also used the blocks to write letters and spell our names. It was a breeze for some students but much harder for others.