First, I have an amazing class of 24 kindergarten darlin's. Yes 24. It sometimes seems like a lot, but some of my friends have closer to 30 in their kindergarten classrooms so I have decided NOT to complain.
I wanted to share a really awesome activity that we did a few weeks ago. One song that my team mate and I chose to use as an end of day song is Will.i.am singing "What I Am". I've posted it below (in case you haven't seen the cute video), but it is really inspiring song about all the wonderful things that kids can be.
Even more perfect, we had just learned the sight words 'I' and 'am'. So we watched the video a couple of times and brainstormed a list of character traits that we could attribute to ourselves. Then I gave them a page with the words 'I am ______________", with I and am dotted out for the children to trace. They did an awesome job and the pages looked so cute on the bulletin board.
They wrote such wonderful sentences as "I am beautiful.", "I am respectful.", "I am happy.", "I am nice.", "I am strong."
I made a cover and then made it into a class book.
I love having the kids make class books. Its an excellent opportunity for the children to be successful with their writing and to publish their work.
