I have many
“BFF’s” and Pamela Pounds from Alabama is one of them for sure! If you’ve every seen the applesauce
label glued to the stick, that idea came from Pam. (When the teacher holds up the applesauce label the children
sit criss-cross applesauce.) Pam recently sent me this story and these ideas:
The other day
I had a parent stop me and talk to me in the hallway. She has three
children. I taught the first two, but did not pull her child’s name for
this year. She was a little upset, she told me that she did not think her
child was learning as much as her other children did in kindergarten. She
said it was because I let my students sing. She said that her other
children remember the songs I taught them and still sing them. I just
smiled and told her that he would be OK because he still had time
to learn. In my heart I was smiling.
I have told you about my heart and lip stamp. If I put a heart
stamp on their papers, that means they made my heart sing. If I put the
lip stamp on their papers, that means for them to kiss their brains. The
new thing that I have started is called a WOW E. I just write the
word WOW on their paper with a zig –zag line underneath the word WOW.
They love getting a WOW!
In one of
your blogs you had line up poems like “Bubblegum, bubblegum in a dish. How many pieces do you wish?”
There is an Easter line up poem that goes something like this; “Easter eggs in
a basket, what color are your eggs?” If they say blue, then spell
blue as you point to each child and when you get to e, that person sits down.
Fun way to reinforce color words.
Here are some
comments Sara Quinn left for “Shhhhh!”
Teacher
says: Hands on top. (Students put their hands on their
heads.)
Students
say: That means stop!
Teacher says:
Holy Moly!
Students say:
Guacamole!
Teacher says:
All set?
Students say:
You bet!
