An important part of Kindergarten is learning to be a good friend, including sharing and taking turns. Playing games is one of the many ways we work on this. We recently read The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper. Even though it was a familiar story, my students enjoy hearing it over and over again. During free choice time at the end of the day, students may use either the Smart Board or our student computer to play games and http://www.thomasandfriends.com/usa/Thomas.mvc/Home has been a popular choice lately. If you click on games, there are fourteen different options. My students enjoy the Memory Matching game. We spend a lot of time in math focusing on time and the difference between seconds, minutes, and hours and this game times students and how fast they are able to find all of the matches.
Image from: http://thesanmarinorealestatereport.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/the-little-engine-that-could-by-carrie-benuska/
Another game that we play at the beginning of the year is “Reggie Loves to Rhyme” which can be found at http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/reggie/index.htm. We often play this game together if we have a couple extra minutes. We try to think of other words that rhyme with the pair given by Reggie. One nice thing about this game is that if you click on the picture it pronounces it for you, which is definitely helpful at the beginning of Kindergarten.
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