Valentine's Day

We call it our friendship celebration day. In KL kindergarten we are always making everyone who walks through our door feel part of our family. You will hear kids welcome other children as well as adults into the classroom, sometimes before I even get a chance to! If we have other children come to visit our classroom they will introduce themselves and ask if they would like to do what they are engaged in as well. I am amazed at conversations I hear (when they do not think I am listening). They are eager to help someone out, show someone how something is done if that child is frustrated, or solve problems. We are a tight little cozy family in KL and it makes days like Valentine's Day seem like any other day because the only difference we do on that day is have a little party!

One of the activities we did on Valentine's Day was make bags to put all our special cards and treats in. We were given foam stickers that we could place any where we liked. Many of us came up with stories about why we decided to decorate it one way appose to another way.

Another activity we started on Tuesday was creating our Love Monsters. This was used to help them as a writing prompt. First we start as a whole group and talked about monsters and Monsters Inc. the movie was brought up. So we talked about the different looking monsters there were in that movie. Then we talked about different ways we could use construction paper to create different looking monsters. I showed them a few different ways of curling paper and folding paper. There were given the choice of what colors to use and how they wanted to create their monsters. After they were done they were asked to to name the monster and dictate a story about their monster to me. Since I wanted it to be longer than a sentence I typed them up for each of the children. They turned out really cute. After all the stories are posted on the bulletin board I will take a picture and upload it to here. For all my parents that are reading this they are located in the back hallway on the bulletin board by the back doors!