Last week many families asked me how we were celebrating our students transitioning to kindergarten and honestly I wasn’t really sure because we still have some students returning to the fall.
So my co-teacher Samantha and I sat down and thought about what we wanted to do. We decided what a fun way it would be to create a collage of the photos we had taken of the students throughout summer session. So each student was given a set of pictures to glue onto their papers, ending with pictures of them celebrating their last day of summer school, or their last day of preschool. As they looked at the pictures many of them spoke about the memories the pictures invoked, and the friendships they had made.
While some of our students will be returning in the fall, others will be transitioning to other classrooms, but the majority of them are moving on to kindergarten. They have made friends, and laughed. We played in the water tables, the sensory bins and the sand boxes. We pretended to be architects and built towers out of blocks, created a pet shop and became business owners and went on many adventures by reading books such as “The Color Monster,” “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” and ” Pete the Cat Rocking In My School Shoes.
Teacher Nikki
We may have been attending school in the summer but it was still an enjoyable experience and created positive memories for the students. As parents picked up their students today we heard comments such as
“Thanks for all you do.” and
“Because of you and your co- teacher my student is excited for kindergarten, you helped him learn to enjoy coming to school.” and
“Even though it was summer school my student said this was the best summer ever.”
This is why we do what we do. This is why we show up every day and attend because attending matters.
