Happy to be Back

While I am still not feeling 100% better it was definitely nice to be back in Kindergarten today!  Wednesdays always seem to fly by with the day ending a bit earlier but we were able to get a lot done today. Kindergarten enthusiastically asked me to read more of our chapter book Gooseberry Park after Morning Meeting.  So far the characters we met are Stumpy a squirrel, Kona a Labrador, Gwendolyn a hermit crab and today we met a new character in this book Murray the bat.

Mrs. Guilmette visited for Guidance this morning and taught students some strategies for solving small problems (i.e. a classmate is humming and you would like them to stop or someone cut in line) and the importance of telling an adult when their is a big problem (someone is being unsafe or bullying).  After Guidance we worked on solving some number bonds together altogether and then began our Social Studies Unit on Community Helpers.  Kindergarten learned that a community is a place where people live and work together and community helpers are people who make communities cleaner, better and safer.  Today we read the non-fiction text Helpers in My Community by Bobbie Kalman and over the next few weeks will learn more about specific helpers in our community.  On Wednesday we also go to the computer lab after lunch.  Kindergarten did an excellent job logging in and off of the computers all by themselves!