Welcome to Room 31

Excited families wait for the bell...7:58AM September 11, 2009

"I can do it myself"
Aneel finds his hook.
Yes, as scary as it is, we have already broken into the paints!

We are learning to use our math manipulatives.

And painting some more!
We always clean our up in kindergarten.

Most of our time in these precious first days is spent learning routines, procedures and pushing boundaries. The five-year-olds are learning hundreds of these during each hour. Markers need caps. Pencils go in the basket when they are dull. Always push in your chair...unless its a fire drill and it takes you three minutes to push in chairs. Raise your hand to share. Only share what is relevant to the topic at hand. Mrs. Kurkinen does not repeat herself. Ask a friend. You must serve yourself at lunch. Here is your lunch card. You will go play outside when you are dismissed. The quietest table gets dismissed first. Put your lunchbox on the steps in front of Room 31. No going up the slide. Go down the slide one at a time. We learn Spanish after recess. Sra. Kurkinen will not speak English during Super Spanish. Sra. Kurkinen wants everyone to speak when she says, "repitame". Dream time is quite. Get a tissue when you need one. Put your finished work in the class file. Take your work out of the class file and put it in your home folder at the end of the day. THAT one is YOUR file. Bussers line up in the hallway. Pick ups line up in the classroom.

And that is only the half of it. We are already learning to read and write!