I Want My Hat Back

The children have been busy preparing for our Reader's Theater for weeks. It has been a collaborative process involving an author study, voting for the book they would like to read, connecting our learning to our chosen text, integrating art and expression, and supporting all peers.

Throughout this experience I have been in awe of their patience and love for one another. They not only understand that each child in our classroom is working on something different - from pointing to words as they read to having a calm body during transitions - but they accept and honor the needs of one another and the needs of our classroom as a whole.

As a teacher I place a lot of value on community and peer support, but this particular group of children have encouraged me to reflect and better my own practice. They are the voice of our classroom. Their ownership of our classroom environment, learning, and work has been essential throughout our Kindergarten journey.

They truly are a community of avid readers.

Thank you families for supporting the children and for coming together to celebrate their growth as readers and their love for Jon Klassen!


Final preparations and thinking about how we're feeling leading up to their performance...

 

 

 

 

 

 


Reader's Theater
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Following the children's performance and our community breakfast, we reviewed the thoughts from our audience. After recording the information on a t-chart, we counted and compared. It was close, but more people in our audience thought that the bear sat on the rabbit!