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Circle/Group Time
Red Pocket Chart is "All about me all day
long"
Small blue pocket chart "The weather today is?"
Calender
Large blue pocket chart "class
rules"
Under the bulletin board is the Word Wall
This pocket chart shows our classroom
rules. At the beginning of the school year we sing this song and make the pocket chart with pictures of the children
and the sayings in the song.
This is the way to Help (tune: Mulberry Bush)
Written by Kids World Exploration
This is the way we pick-up our toys
Pick-up our toys Pick-up our toys
This
is the way we pick-up our toys
So that we can help and learn
Repeat with these lines and any others that the children came up with
This is the way we wipe up our
spills This is the way we share with our friends This is the way we take turns This
is the way we stand in line This is the way we wash hand This is the way we push in our chair
The blue pocket chart is "The weather today is?"
A
child places a word plate under the question for what the weather is like on that day. (hot, cold, warm, windy, snowing,
raining, or foggy)
Next to the weather is the calendar.
The red pocket chart is for "All about me all day
long"
A different child is chosen daily. The children have to guess who's name it is. The teacher
gives them one letter of that child's name at a time until they know who it is. Once they know who it is that child
gets to help with the weather, tell the class how they are feeling today, help the teacher make sure that things have been
put away (child gets to walk around the class with a basket and pretend binoculars, looking for items that need to be put
away), and lead the line all day long.
We added a daily
schedule next to the red pocket chart in our circle area.
When
I Participate in Circle Time Activities I am Learning:
*To listen, sit still, and understand spoken
language.
*To add my ideas to the discussion. My ideas have value.
*To wait while others are talking.
*New
vocabulary connected with the topic of discussion.
*To remember the words of songs and poems.
*The names of others
in the group.
*To cooperate and be considerate of the needs of others.
*To help plan what we will do and what we
will need to do it.
Circle Time Props
Brings Stories Alive
Children will be sure to come to circle when using
props to bring the stories alive.
I made caps out of felt for the story Caps for Sale.
I have enough caps for each child in the class. For the story I wear all the caps on top of my head and walk around
circle reading the book (you can have your assistant be the cap sales man if you prefer.) When the sales man falls asleep,
all the children get a cap and turn into the monkeys in the story. As you read the story the children act out what the
monkeys are doing in the story. Children will want to hear this story over and over.
To order Mrs. Flutterbee books and hat go to Kati Bee and Friends.
When reading Mrs. Flutterbee books or singing her songs, I wear
a hat that is just like the one Mrs. Flutterbee wears in the story. The children love it.
book
with story telling props.
Here are some glasses that I wear when reading books like Hey,
Little Ant or The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear.
Silly
fun Hats to make you laugh.
Talking Stick (Microphone) when having discussions the children get
to use the talking stick the child that is holding the talking stick is the only one talking. When done that child passes
on the talking stick.
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