Our class is coming together quite nicely. The children have stopped asking when they are going to have "choice time" which I imagine was free play time in kindergarten. We have set up a behavior system that encourages good listening skills (I know many adults that could benefit from this), taking turns speaking, and following directions. Each time the class works together to achieve one of these skills a balloon is popped on a page on the Smartboard. Under each balloon is a letter which is part of a hidden message (their reward). When all the balloons are popped the surprise is revealed and we are able to celebrate. They also worked feverishly trying to decode the hidden message each time a clue was revealed and were quite successful. Last weeks hidden message was "video party" which turned out to be a youtube video of Really Rosie singing Chicken Soup With Rice (we've been singing the September song from the book by Maurice Sendak each morning) and lollipops for everyone! We'll have a new hidden message this week! I'm going to have to up the anti with a more difficult message.
The children also very much enjoy our weekly Kiva meetings with the other 3 classrooms in Vista. We have done a mixture of singing and sharing quality work. We are looking forward to sharing our own work next week.
I hope to see everyone this Thursday evening at our Vista Parent Information Night.
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