Kid Bloggin' Thursday

Koo Koo Kanga Roo from GoNoodle

This is our brain break.

• We dance with the people on the screen.
• We dance with them.
• It has backgrounds.
• After we are done we check how much points we have.
• After we fill up all of the points we get to pick a new person.
• We dance!
• It is super awesome!
• After we fill up to 10 we get to see how big he gets.
• We like the brain breaks.
• We do them.
• We love having brain breaks.

 These are our letters.

• They are special.
• We fill them up.
• One is lunch bunch.
• One is iPads.
• We like getting them so much.
• If the whole class is good the teacher picks one person to fill in one letter.
• One is extra recess.
• When we fill up the whole letters we get a class party.
• The one where we only have 2 filled in is the iPads.
• One is sock party.
• We earn them from being good.
• We earn them from being quiet.

Good Behaviors

This is our good behavior wall.

• It shows us good behaviors.
• It has all of the good behaviors on it. 
• We are so proud of the people that are good.
• Be respectful.
• Some people help other people.
• We hope that people do the stuff on the good behavior wall.
• We hope that other people treat other people how they want to be treated.
• When they are good we like them because they are good to us and we be good to them.
• They have responsible.
• We be nice to our friends.
• We be good to our family and school.

This is our reading table.

• We go to it every school day and we read special books.
• We read Beth's Job.
• It is grey.
• Around the grey there is red.
• We really like the table because it is pretty.
• We like to work on it.
• We can write with a marker on it.
• We sit on the blue cubes.
• We sit on the boxes and inside of them there is books.
• The teacher works with us and we work with her.
• We blend sounds at the table with our teacher.
• We work with Miss Messick at the table.
• Miss Messick calls our names back and we come.

This is our Jan Brett book.

• There is a moose in it.
• We read them.
• There is a stray bob cat in it.
• A lots of animals eat the corn bread in this book.
• Jan Brett is a author.
• She puts pictures on the sides to show us what comes next.
• Miss Messick is in it reading the book.
• Jan Brett wrote this book.
• We like it because it has pictures on the bottom.
• This is a video of one of Jan Brett's books.
• There are pictures on the top and the bottom.

Kid Bloggin' Wednesday

September Author Study

This is a picture of our Author Study Books.

• They are fun to read.
• The are awesome.
• They are cool.
• The books are all from the same author.
• The books are silly.
• The books are fun.
• Our author study is Eric Carle.

This is Miss Messick's desk.

• Miss Messick's desk is awesome.
• It is colorful.
• Miss Messick's desk is partly clean.
• It is amazing.
• There is a lot of stuff.
• It is next to the listening center.
• Miss Messick works on it.

Star Center

 It has sight words.

• It is very fun.
• It is awesome.
• We read all of them.
• We can choose any one.
• We lay one of them out to the floor.
• We really like them.
• They're fun to read.
• It is a center.

Classroom Library

 This is our books.

• We read them.
• We pick books out of them on Wednesdays.
• The yellow books are real.
• The yellow books are non-fiction. That means they are real. The other books are fiction because they are not true.
• We practice reading them.
• We like reading them.
• We like all the books.
• They have pretty pictures in them.
• They are cool.

 

The Book With No Pictures 

 This book is with no pictures.

• It has funny words.
• This is our book with no pictures.
• The book is called The Book With No Pictures.
• The book is so funny it makes us laugh.
• Some of the words don't make sense.
• The author is B.J. Novak.
• The book is white.
• The book has colorful words.
• The book is so long.

A Little Dancing Never Hurt Anyone

As I've started preparing for school my mind has drifted towards music, dancing, and recess! The last couple of years I've utilized Youtube. There are so many videos out there that can be used for help with instruction, brain breaks, and of course indoor recess. There are always those kids who are going to be leery of participating. This can be overcome with teacher participation. Nothing gets kids more pumped than their teacher jumping around acting crazy with them. I love music. I love to dance. My kids always learn this quickly!

While laying in bed, playing on Pinterest of course, I ran across a dance video. This sparked my interest to look for more videos to add to my school dance playlists on YouTube. One video undoubtedly turned into 10 videos. An hour and a half later, 10+ new videos, and countless songs stuck in my head, I was finally forced to head to sleep.

While this playlist is a work in progress, I know that I've got a great group of videos to start with. There are videos I can use to teach following directions and ones that are purely to get some exercise in.

Here's dancing, new ideas, and the internet!

P.S
Teachers: What's your go to for brain breaks and indoor recess?
Parents: How do your kids like to get their energy out?