Peace is...

We began our morning with Writer's Workshop.  Kindergartners are working on telling and drawing stories that are important to them.  Dramatic and imaginative play is a big part of being 5 and 6 years old and we are working on sharing stories that are unique to us.  After having time to work in our drawing and writing books, most days, we have time for at least two students to share their stories.  Today during our share students listening asked questions and gave suggestions for how the story could be even better.  They are really working hard!

During Math we continued working on identifying the number that is one more and then we split up between the three kindergarten classrooms from 10:30-11:00.  The group that worked with me played a fun math game called "Bump."

Our book today was The Peace Book by Todd Parr.  I began the book by asking what is peace and many students had thoughtful responses to share such as peace is everyone being happy and kind, peace is being quiet or calm, and peace is being nice to one another.  After reading the book each Kindergarten student thought about what peace is to them and drew a picture illustrating their sentence.  Their understanding of peace reaches far beyond many.