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To put it mildly, our first week of kindergarten has been a little hectic! Our first day was supposed to be last Monday, but was cancelled due to flooding. Then, we had about a million and one kids register for kindergarten during the first week, so I was the overflow class until we got another teacher hired. Let me go ahead and sing the praises of all of you who are out there teaching 25+ kids! After teaching 18-20 for the past 4 years, 27 felt like I was in the looney bin! It took us forever to get anywhere! I'm saying extra prayers for y'all who don't have caps on class size daily now!
Although we were a little cramped, we did have fun and managed to get a few things done. Here's what went down:
We took first day pictures {thanks to Michelle over at Apples and ABCs for the sweet K idea!} and had Jitter Juice to celebrate our first day...

We learned all about what we should and should not do with the help of Lyndsey's Kindergarten pack...

We started a little alphabet introduction with the letter Aa {our new series does a quick intro of all letters before going back and diving deep}...

We rainbow trace each letter and glue something on it that begins with the letter. We put glitter on vowels.

We practiced sorting letters {you can get this here or in my bundle here}

We also sorted letters whole group {this is in the packs linked above as well}

We also started working on shapes and began with a circle since it's one most kids know when they come to us...

This is a super simple graphic organizer we did together...the kids had their own to fill in

We sorted shapes into circle and not a circle {the kids also had their own cut and paste version of this}

We painted circles using marshmallows...the kids loved this!

We made our first shape person! I love these little guys and it gave us some great cutting practice as well as practice talking about the properties of circles.

These activities {except the painting circles} are all in my You Better Shape Up pack.

We've done lots more and I hope to blog about it this week...how have your first weeks been??

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Vickie