Ringing in the New Year
(Tune: Row, Row, Row, Your Boat)
Out, out, out with the old,
And let's ring in the new!
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
The year is starting new!
We ended our morning on Tuesday by reading The Night Before New Year's by Natasha Wing. During this story, we identified the characters and the setting. We found the characters were two little boys, a mom, a dad, and a dog. The setting changed throughout the story- from the house, to the store, to outside-and these kindergarten readers detected the story took place during the winter and around Christmas time all by reading the pictures! Click on the picture to the left to listen to a read aloud of the story! |
Resolution- What's a resolution?
We first became familiar with the word when we read Squirrel's New Year's Resolution by Pat Miller (click on the picture for a link to a read aloud). We learned that a resolution was a promise to yourself to make yourself a better person. There were so many forest characters in this book and each one of them made a resolution for the new year. Squirrel was the only character who was having trouble of thinking of how to make herself a better person in the new year. We made lots of predictions about what Squirrel would decide and finally, we figure out that Squirrel had been making herself a better person throughout the story by helping all of her forest friends! The kinders found out that Squirrel resolved to help someone every day in the new year.
After reading, we mingled and discussed all of the characters from the story with our classmates. Then the kiddos helped make a chart to remember all of the characters and their resolutions.
2017 is going to be a great year! What are your resolutions?