I love Kindergarten!

This is why I love Kindergarten. What started as helping two students put on their dramatic play costumes turned into an entire class ballet project!  The two girls asked for ballet music to practice.  I put on the Nutcracker music.  Two other students thought that they should set up chairs.  They put all the stuffed animals on the chairs to watch.  A few other students thought it would be fun to be in the audience.  Then all of a sudden there were Kindergartners making tickets, serving food to the audience, collecting tickets, making the ticket box and a decision that we should make gingerbread men out of play dough to serve to our pretend audience.  We didn't get all of the elements together to have a our ballet show today.  They would like to continue this play during centre time tomorrow.  They only have a few requests for me.  They wanted to know if I could go buy them ballet shoes, some more skirts, make a stage and find more ballet music. What a great morning!

Unexpected Help

 

 

I really like teaching Kindergarten.  They are always so excited to see you every morning.  What I don't particularly like about Kindergarten is prepping for art activities.  It becomes a lot of construction paper cutting.  Well, today, someone did all the work for me.  I didn't ask them to help. It surprised me and it really made my day.

 

 

 

The Feel Good Book

Today, I had a pretty normal day.  I wasn't feeling sad or happy.  It was just an average day. It so happened that my day was about to change.

I took my Kindergartens to the library so they could exchange their books.  The librarian reads the students a story before they go get their new books.    I knew, even though the students did not, that the librarian had to put down her cat the day before.  I knew she was having a tough day. The book that she chose to read to my class both impressed and amazed me.  She read, The Feel Good Book, by Todd Parr.  This is a children's story that asks the students to think about what makes them feel good.  Even though she was having a rough day she chose to surround herself with ideas that made her happy and shared those ideas with my Kindergartens.

This inspired me to think about the things during my day that make me feel good.  Each day I am going to share what made me feel good that day.  It will hopefully inspire others to feel good and look for the goodness in their day.