Yesterday morning during our morning circle time we were discussing attributes of various blocks and sorting them. During this time several students were taken out for TPRI testing. I looked across the rug; one of the boys (Let's call him Hugh) was asleep. Hugh always tries to go to sleep during the morning. I woke him up and sent him for a drink of water. Then I had him stand up. We continued the lesson. I looked a few minutes later., Hugh was sitting down again sleeping. Two or three others were laying down also. I decided that we would go to the hallway and take a walk up and down the hallway. This would surely wake them up.
Back to class and begin Voyager. Nope! The same ones are down again. Wake them up and continue lesson. Finally we get to stations and groups. Yes. Now I start getting the inevitable, "I'm hungry. When is lunch?" "Pretty soon!", I say. We finish Voyager go to lunch and come back to the room for recess. Recess has been in the room this week because the older students are having 9 weeks tests and we don't want to disturb them. We work on floor puzzles. My kids love to do puzzles. They get excited when they finish one.
Yesterday was PE day. The kids came back tired. It was rest time. By the end of rest time and beginning of snack time 8 students were sleeping. No, we don't take naps in kindergarten. We rest and then have a snack; if we stay awake. Center time was next and half of us were still asleep. It's hard to wake up the little ones sometimes. By the time we started Science we were up and were learning about soil, rocks, and water.
Last week we picked up rocks from the playground. After we picked them up we weighed them, sorted them, and described them. Yesterday we added them to the Kindergarten Rock Garden. I suppose you could call it "der kindergarten felsen garten." I suppose that would be a close approximation. The kids enjoy it. They know each of their rocks, even when they look the same to us.
Did I mention the student that went to sleep sitting cross legged, leaning over with his forehead resting on the floor? No! That'll have to be another post.
© 2008 Barry T Horst
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
