Of Clocks and Gingerbeardmen
9/14/2018
We had a busy week in Early Kindergarten! We did a baking project, had a class visitor, and chased after some gingerbread friends! This week was all about cementing the beginning of the year concepts we have been learning these 4 weeks. We started out the week talking about time. We discussed clocks and connected the concept of time to our own school schedule and the students' routines at home. The purpose of these lessons was to give the students beginning skills in time management, as well as providing them ownership over a resource (our visual class schedule) to help them process our daily transitions, and feel comfortable in the classroom. We transitioned to talking about Who works in our school for the second part of the week. We had a visit from Mrs. Hoefer, Head of School. The students asked her questions about her job at school that they had thought up the day before. In an effort to continue getting to know the other teachers and students in our school, we baked two gingerbread friends on Thursday, who then ran away from us Friday morning. We had to search the school looking for them. The purpose of this activity was to continue to familiarize the students with the rest of PNA. We asked around the front offices, and in the other classrooms, getting to connect with the older students and their teachers. We eventually found out runaways in the 8th grade class. I want our EK students to feel like they are apart of the whole school community and that the school is a safe environment where they belong. Sometimes it can be hard to move outside of our classroom bubble. Hopefully we will continue to do activities like this that allow us to visit and partner with other classes at PNA. More Highlights from the Week!
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