First Monday!

Happy sunny Monday!  Kindergarten was happy to see the sun shining and we were able to spend time outdoors at the beginning and end of our day.  After morning meeting, I introduced Poetry Journals which will become a station during Reader's Workshop.  Last week we read the poem "September" from Chicken Soup with Rice:

In September
For a while
I will ride a crocodile
DOwn the chicken soupy Nile.

Paddle once,
Paddle twice
Paddle chicken soup with rice!

After reading the poem together several times we talk about the picture we get in our brain from reading the words.  Students then got the chance to cut and glue the poem in their poetry journal and illustrate it.  We will do this each week with a new poem:

We also read a social story to learn about what to do if someone is annoying or hurting us.  We talked about putting your hand up "in a stop sign" looking at the person and saying "I don't like it when..." and saying what the person is doing.  If you do this and ask the person to stop and it doesn't work then you can ask a teacher for help.