This past week the Kindergarten team, teacher aides, and I had a very productive two days doing roll-in with the students. We tested the Kindergarten students on their fine motor, gross motor, speech, and academic knowledge. I had the opportunity to test students on fine motor, gross motor and academic. It was amazing to see how different each student's though process and style of learning was. I felt this was a great opportunity for me to see what is expected of these children when they enter Kindergarten. After our two successful days of roll-in, we were able to assess our students and prepare us for our first day of school.
The first day of school went SO smoothly. (Almost too smoothly according to Cheri!) Although we have many ELL students and a few Sped students, our students are mostly high flyers. I was so happy to see how excited these students were to learn.
Here is a list of some literacy experiences in the classroom:
calendar, library, colors and shapes, centers, labels on cabinets, lunch charts, and songs.
I had the opportunity to read Miss Bindergarten Get's Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate. After reading this story to the class, we reflected on our fun story. I asked the students what they liked about this story. Then we did a mini literacy lesson on, what each student did to get ready for their first day of Kindergarten. After we wrote down a sentence for each students morning, we had the students go to their table and draw a picture to match their sentence on how they got ready for Kindergarten. We then wrote the sentence on their papers and made a book out of all our their drawings and put it in our class library.
