Our First Full Day of Kindergarten!

Today was our first full day of Kindergarten!  This morning we read the book What do You do with an Idea? and discussed how we all have wonderful ideas to share and that our ideas can make the world a better place.  We connected this to a short video from the Kid President.  He gave us a "Pep Talk" asking us to think about what we can do to make the world more awesome and better for each other.

Before we went to play and explore, we discussed that sometimes in Kindergarten we will play with toys that come from store and sometimes we can use our ideas to build things out of supplies that we may have normally recycled or thrown away.  Today we used cardboard tubes, straws and hole punches to create!  Some things we created were a rocket ship and musical instruments.  We also did a little bit of math having time to explore with the math tools we will use this year.

This afternoon we talked a bit about where we live and watched the first of our "National Geographic Kids: Are We There Yet?" videos.  This is a great series where children are narrating as they travel to different parts of the world.  The videos are short and are in three part series for each country. Today we visited ancient pyramids in Mexico and we put a tack on our wall map to show us where Mexico is!  We also visited Ms. Beth in the library and got to choose a book to check out.  Books will remain in our classroom for this week and once we get the routines down will be able to come home to share.