A Typical Day...

Now that I'm at the start of week 4(!) I thought I would share with you some of a typical day in Kindergarten.  We start off with role call...each student has their name printed on a card and I hold up the cards.  The students tell me whose name is on the card and that student then tells us "hello" in another language.  They know LOTS of ways to say hello! Here is the list so far (and if you know any others, please leave suggestions in the comments!):

Next, the star of the week gets to share something they brought from home and the kids all got to ask questions about the item. Without fail, they ask the same 4 questions every.single.day. "Who gave it to you?", "Where do you take it?", "Why do you like it so much?", and "How long have you had it?" I remind them to look at the item, ask some different questions, but so far it hasn't worked!
       After the star of the week is done, we read the morning message.  I write a small letter to the class and pick names out of a bag.  If a student's name is called, they walk up to the white board and circle a word they know.  Here is tomorrow's message:

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, the kids have Spanish class in the morning, so this should be fresh on their minds!  After the morning message, we have calendar time.  We see what the date, day of the week, weather, and how many days we have been in school.  Here is the calendar wall:

Next is math time.  We'll preview today's lesson as a group and them everyone will sit at their desks. I help the kids work through the worksheets and then they go out for recess.  During recess, we prep for center time. There are lots of things that the kids do in centers.  Crafts, writing, painting, drawing, listening to books on tape (yes, tapes), and many, many more.  Each center lasts about 20 min, and after center time it's lunch!

After lunch we do rotations with the 2 other kinder classes.  Usually our rotation is PE...and it's been REALLY nice weather lately so it's awesome!  After rotations, it's time for afternoon recess.  After recess it's usually writing book, or letter of the day time.  Last, it's time to pick up our chairs and go home!

And that, my friends, is a typical day! :)