The Kindergarteners love to play "shop" and sell donuts and cookies to their classmates during Center Time. They've even had their peers in the writing center make them money to buy these "goods." They've created two signs to go along with this game, one as you walk in the door:
"Goode Chop---->"
and
"The Chop is naw closd". (The Shop is Now Closed).
Today we watched an animal slideshow (for fun) briefly during Morning Meeting. When the kids saw this image:One little girl yells, "Oooh! A Chiuaua!" Another girl matter of factly replied, "Uh, that's a WILD chiuaua."
Apparently there aren't too many foxes in these parts. ;)
Today during some free time a few students were singing their ABC's. A boy attempted to join them and goes, "a b c d e f... f, that's as far as I know!"
I prompted him, "g...h, i."
He goes, "Um, excuse me, Miss T? I only know up to f, I can't count higher than that."
We have classroom jobs around here and one of them is a Door Holder. When you're the door holder you get to, well, hold the door. Today's door holder, every time a child walked by said, "Thank you for flying Airline, thank you for flying airline."
We have three classroom fish in our room and since they've already lived for two weeks we decided it was about time to name them. The kids all had suggestions and we voted... you want to know the winners? Really?
Gummy Orangie Goldie
Honestly.
Some other contenders were Bob, Bobby, Blackie, Purple Max and Sol. Really.
I'm pretty sure we have a Kindergarten romance brewing. The two of them walked out to recess together, walked in together and sat next to each other at our morning meeting. Then, during the meeting he let her feel his loose tooth. I'm pretty sure that's close to engagement in Kindergarten time-span. :)
Everyday we have morning meeting. This is a time for the kids to see their schedule for the day, we read a book, talk about the weather, update the calendar, etc. Yesterday we read a story about a crab. After we finished, I asked the class, "What other things live in the ocean?" They raised their hands and we heard, "whales," "sharks," "jellyfish"... then the next hand, "One time, I got stung by a jelly (pronounced Yelly) fish." Next hand, "I got stung by a jellyfish too." Next hand, "I got stung by TWO jellyfish. THIS SUMMER." (You can see how this goes...) Next hand, "Well, one time. I got an EEL!" I laughed a little and this little boy looks at me, totally annoyed that I'm smiling about this MAJOR FISH HE CAUGHT. WITH TWO NETS. Crosses his arms and says, "FOUW. WHEEL." ("For real" for all of you non-little kid talkers).
Today is the first official day of school! AH! And my internet has not been working at The House so I couldn't update last night. Hopefully this afternoon I'll have some time!
It's Kindergarten Orientation today! I (finally!) get to see what my class looks like! I can't wait! I am still in a little bit of disbelief that this is happening...
