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We purchased the frame at a craft store, and then spray painted it yellow. Need I say more? And BOY, were they ready! My wonderful job share partner Remie took pictures of the children holding the “My First Day of Kinder” frame, and then we posted the pictures on the wall later to make a bulletin board out of them. This gives us an idea of their fine motor and visual perception abilities. The children try to copy the shapes as best they can. I again designated a few toys and some books for them to play with and look at when they were done.

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You can find out more about that here, all of these pages are free downloads. Then, after they finished their projects, we all sat down on the carpet again and read The Night Before Kindergarten by Natasha Wing, which is one of my favorite books for the beginning of school! The children had just about had it, so we (my new job share partner and I!) sent the children outside for recess.Īfter recess, we had the children do a visual perception shape copying “test.” It’s really just a way to find out what their little eyes can perceive and what their little hands can draw. An adult “frames it” on the colored paper later. The children cut out the face and glue it on the white paper. Then after school I put all of the self portraits on a bulletin board. This is the Self Portrait that my, now ADULT, daughter Katie made on her first day of Kindergarten! She is now an art education major can you tell? Below you can see the self portrait that my own daughter made on her first day of Kindergarten, so many years ago! She is now 22 years old, but I keep it in my files as an example to show the children each year. I also designated four different toys that they could play with when they were finished, such as unifix cubes, pattern blocks, alphabet magnets, and books to read.

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I explained how to do the project and then sent them off to the tables to do it as a whole group. (Be sure to check that link to find out how to manage letting kids get drinks in a quick and easy way!) My Pacing Guide indicated that I only needed to get through the songs for numbers 0 – 5, but my class has a very decent attention span this year, and the DVD held their attention easily all the way from 0 – 10! After that, we took a quick break to let everyone get a drink and then started again. Sing the Jumpin’ Numbers and Shakin’ Shapes Songs. Plus, the review only takes as long as the video below (One minute & 16 seconds.) There is more information on how to use it on my blog post here.Ħ. When we review them every day, it REALLY helps them learn to recognize the numbers and shapes quickly. Introduce the Jumpin’ Numbers and Shakin Shapes cards and movements. The children LOVED it! In fact, they have been begging to hear it each day, which is great because it serves as a way to teach the class rules.ĥ.

I read this book and had my little doggy puppet help me act out the story. We read one of these Wiggles books nearly every day as a way of teaching and reviewing the procedures and rules. I drill the class on them by pointing at them and asking them to identify each card.Ĥ. Next to the calendar, I have stapled some flash cards for the letters, numbers, and words that we are focusing on this week.

Later, once they know the days of the week, we sing the Months of the Year Song instead. This daily activity includes: identify the month, sing the Days of the Week Song, count how many days we have been in school.

So here we go! I’ll include links to other blog posts or my web page if there is more information available by clicking on the link. This is just the first two weeks of my Pacing Guide, but if you check it against my lesson plans, you can see that I am teaching the same concepts this week that are on it.

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Then, during the last trimester, the children stay for a full day, from 8:15 – 2:15. After that, we teach from 8:15 – 1:20 until the end of the second trimester at the end of March. When you look at my lesson plans, keep in mind that we are on a half day kindergarten schedule for the first four weeks, from 8:15 – 11:35. I hope that will find this post useful, particularly those of you that are new to Kindergarten! Each week, my lesson plans will be aligned with the free Pacing Guide that I posted a few years ago and have been updating yearly. Hello, everyone! This week I am going to tell you what my lesson plans were for the first week of Kindergarten.