Hands are not for hitting activities

Hands are not for hitting! Hands are for helping!! This is a must have lesson for Kindergarden (although I remember working in a high school thinking they needed this lesson too- you know the saying everything I need to know I learned in Kindergarden!) Here is how I approached the lesson this year: A counseling must have book. I use the "Magic Coloring Book of Feelings" every year in K to introduce myself and my job. The kids sometimes see me in the hall and say "hi magic book lady." So I…

Oh, sweet two year olds. I recently remembered a quote about little girls and Googled it and was happy to find it right away.... Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. ~Margaret Atwood How true is this?? This quote is from Ms. Atwood's novel "Cat's Eye" about the torturous relationships between pre-teen girls (on my must-read list....I hadn't heard of it but am a huge fan of A Handmaid's Tale, and I was surprised to learn that…

One of the biggest goals I have for my students is to know their personal information: name, birthday, age, phone number, address, school info. I struggled with this for the past year, I felt like I was not helping my students succeed. I tried all sorts of different games and strategies, but nothing was sticking....

esto esta bueno para hacerlo en la primer semana de clase... o el primer dia... o mejor antes del primer dia de escuela jaja

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Kindness Lesson, Hands are For board, each student said something nice that hands could be for.

We try to incorporate activities with certain lessons. Kids love getting his/her hands and feet painted why not talk about important topics like what hands are made for and what we shouldn’t do with them. It’s actually a fun exercise to enforce positive behaviors. #preschool #preschoolactivities #preschoolcrafts #lesson #art

Rosie was recently going through a hitting stage .

. . . Helping Hands We read the book Hands Are Not for Hitting and talked about how we can use our hands to help others. Thanks to Miss Mo...