Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

On Tuesday in honor of MLK Day, we read the book, Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King by Jean Marzollo. We focused on Dr. King's message of fairness, acceptance, and kindness. After reading, students paired up with each other to find one way they were the same and one way they were different. Each pair shared and some of the responses included: gender, age, skin color, hair color, eye color, toys, foods... It was quite impressive how they see each other's similarities and differences. In our classroom we talk a lot about being kind in our interactions with others - when others are kind to us we feel happy and when we are kind to others we feel good about ourselves. On Wednesday we celebrated the 90th day of school with a visit from Zero the Hero. We will celebrate our 100th day on Wednesday, February 5th! Our reading focus today was on looking at the pictures to help solve unknown words in a text. We read the big book, Here Are My Hands, and students had to guess what word I covered up by the pictures clues. It is a strategy Kindergarteners often rely on heavily in their beginning reading. For the last few weeks we have been listening to the soundtrack Frozen during snack time. The children really get into singing a few of the songs. I think they may be ready to go on tour very soon!