Our first week together has been "purrr-fect"! We've been blessed with an energetic, warm-hearted group of students, and they've been an easy bunch of kids to fall in love with!
But we've had one extra "student" join us this week ... Pete the Cat! This feisty feline has a way of overcoming a challenge by always finding the positive! What an important message for the children to hear as they begin a new school year!
Our first day together was so exciting! As we were reading through Pete the Cat and his Magic Sunglasses, we discovered Pete's glasses were locked in the box! Yikes!
Using teamwork, patience, and our amazing enthusiasm, we collaborated by solving clues to open a letter lock, directional lock, and number lock! We retrieved the sunglasses from inside the box!
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| We were also surprised with strawberries & blueberries when we opened the box! Ask your child why we got berries! |
After reading Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, we couldn't resist making our own version! We brainstormed what Pete might step in, and then each student set to work completing their own page for our class book!
The children really enjoy flipping through our class-made book. They are so proud to see their work!
To finish off our week, we read Pete the Cat: The Wheels on the Bus. Then we practiced singing the song using our names! We focused on using the first sound in our names to make our own verses.
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| This student's name begins with an L, so his bus says "lumpity lump"! |
We set to work making our own buses.
Then we added the first letter of our name and personalized our poems!
These projects gave Mrs. Beliveau an opportunity to get to know the boys and girls better. She got an extra peek at the children's abilities to follow directions, cut, print and glue, as well as several other work habits, such as perseverance, problem-solving and time management.
Pop by to see our hard work and flip through our class book ... but watch out, this tune has a way of getting stuck in your head!
Pete the Cat Breakout Box activities adapted from here.
Pete the Cat First Day certificates adapted from Inspired By Kindergarten.
Pete the Cat Roll and Cover dice game from Little Miss Hypothesis.
Our Pete the Cat: Rockin in our School Shoes class-made book was inspired by the class book at Rubber Boots and Elf Shoes.
Pete the Cat Roll and Cover dice game from Little Miss Hypothesis.
Our Pete the Cat: Rockin in our School Shoes class-made book was inspired by the class book at Rubber Boots and Elf Shoes.
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes book is inspired by A Classroom on Cloud Nine.
The Wheels on the Bus names activity is inspired by Deanna Jump's Names Unit: Literacy and Math Fun With Names.
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