Hi room 5 families! It has been an incredible week filled with making new friends, learning about new routines, and exploring our school. Below are highlights from our first week of kindergarten together as well as ways for parents to support discussion with their child. Enjoy! Run, run, run as fast as you can. We caught the gingerbread man who was loose in our school! On the way we learned about important places on our campus. Below are pictures of us on our search for the sneaky gingerbread man. Parents can ask: "Where do you go if you're not feeling well?" "What color hallways is the art room in?" "What color hallway is the dance room in?" We met Coach Cribbs who teaches us about dance and exercise. Here we are meeting in the dance studio. On our first day we learned how to use different types of equipment during recess. Parents can ask: "How do you use the slide at school?" "How do you use the hopscotch at school?" "Why is it important to use it a certain way?" Here we are on the first day of school! We also graphed how we felt on the first day. Parents can ask: "What were you feeling on the first day of school? Why?" "What do you notice about the first day feelings graph?" We read the book The Color of Us and talked about the many ways we are all unique and lovely. Afterwards we learned how to use watercolor to paint and painted self-portraits. We also read the book, I'm Gonna Like Me, and talked about what makes us feel our best. We also talked about how something that makes us feel confident might be different from what makes a friend feel confident and that it is okay. We then turned it into art by using watercolors, pencil, and sharpie. To start our ongoing class discussion about kindness, we read the book Chrysanthemum. Each time the students noticed that the characters in the story were not being kind to the little mouse Chrysanthemum, we added a crumple to a picture of the main character. This helped students to visually see that our words and action affect others. We also talked about ways to uncrumple Chrysanthemum. Each time a student suggested something kind or helpful to the character we uncrumpled the picture of Chrysanthemum. Even with a lot of kindness we could still see wrinkles in the picture. That helped students see that even though apologies were said and kind things were offered, being unkind to someone can really change them. Parents can ask: "What are some ways we can uncrumple a friend at school?" "If you felt like someone is crumpling you, what can you do? What can you say?" We also met Ms. Tasi, our art teacher. On the first day of art we created journals to keep all of our new techniques that we will be learning in art class.
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