Saturday, October 21, 2017

Room 8 Kids Are Not Rude Cakes!

As kindergartners settled into school routines last month, we discussed appropriate behavior by reading the following books:

  • The Day My Mom Came to Kindergarten - Rules for school include raising your hand, being quiet when the teacher is talking, waiting your turn, and cleaning up.
  • Rude Cakes - We want Cyclops politeness, not Rude Cake rudeness! Say please and thank you, wait your turn, and share.
  • No Fits, Nilson! - When you feel a fit coming on, try distracting yourself, promising yourself a reward (banana ice cream, banana ice cream, banana ice cream ...), or taking deep breaths.
  • Horrible Bear! - Talking about feelings and apologizing is the way to go v. planning revenge for something that might have just been an accident.

Rude Cakes depicts a VERY rude cake who treats others badly and then is kidnapped from its bed by a cyclops who wants to ... eat it? no, wear it as a hat! And show it off to its very polite friends! We talked about ways to show rude cake (bad) and cyclops (good) behavior and made our own cylops headbands and rude cake hats, thanks to Matthew Winner's craft idea that I found online.

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