Here are some of the books we read this week in Kindergarten. It's a great little series by Scholastic on character traits: I share, I'm nice, I'm a good friend. I love this series for community-building within the classroom. We accompany each book with a class discussion, and the students make an effort to focus on that character trait throughout the day. At the end of the day, we share success stories. It's always heartwarming to hear students talk about how someone helped them draw a butterfly or they cheered up a friend with a silly joke. There are other titles in the series that I will continue to share with the children throughout the year, or whenever we need a little reminder.
In preparation for Remembrance Day, we spoke a lot about la paix and how peace begins with us. Madame Campbell's class sang a beautiful song at our Remembrance Day assembly. I read my class C'est quoi, la paix? by Todd Parr (amazing author/illustrator), and then we came up with our own interpreation of peace. Working with our Buddy class, we wrote and illustrated our own version of Todd Parr's book.
Here are some of our ideas:
Peace is being nice.
Peace is saying please and thank you.
Peace is sharing food.
Peace is making friends.
Peace is being a good friend.
Here are some of our ideas:
Peace is being nice.
Peace is saying please and thank you.
Peace is sharing food.
Peace is making friends.
Peace is being a good friend.
I would love to display these on our bulletin boards outside the classroom. Let me know if you are able to help out with that.
I hope you enjoyed the long weekend!
I hope you enjoyed the long weekend!