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We're officially back at school and winding up our second half of the school year. It was so great to have our holiday break to refresh, recover, and prepare for the final few months of school. I'm so excited to kick off this new year with a discussion about resolutions. Here's a peek at how we celebrated New Years in kindergarten!
New Years Resolutions
When we came back from our two week winter break I knew I wanted to kick off our new year with a discussion about goals. In kindergarten, the concept of goals is a bit tricky, but I believe it's never too soon to start introducing the idea that they can always strive to improve or learn something new.Because I work at a bilingual school, holidays like New Years isn't necessarily something my students know about. It was fun to share New Years traditions and discuss how a new year, for a lot of people, is a time of reflection. I introduced the new vocabulary word: resolution and related it to goal setting.
We read the story The Night Before New Years to highlight a few of the common traditions of staying up till midnight, decorating your home, making resolutions, and counting down. From there we talked more about setting resolutions for ourselves and practiced writing them with invented spelling. I'm always so impressed to see how well my students are sounding out their words come January!
Here are a few of their goals...
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Story Sequencing
For one of my centers during workshops I dedicated to sequencing the story we read The Night Before New Years. We had been working on story sequencing for the last couple of weeks and I love this book companion resource from Lovin' Little Learners! It was a little tough trying to find applicable centers that incorporate this story, but my students really enjoyed Sara's cut and paste sequencing activity. I placed the book in the center as a tool to help students remember which even happened first.
