TK through Kindergarten

The emotional environment is a way to describe how the classroom feels. A classroom infused with a positive leadership culture feels empowering, inspiring, learning-centered, respectful, and cooperative. Each member of the classroom contributes to the overall emotional environment. This project focused on spreading kindness throughout the school. Children are naturally kind. This project gave them the opportunity to show it!

By integrating the 7 Habits into art, we are teaching students to create, present, respond and connect. Students in this kindergarten class learn about leadership and share what it means to be a leader through their artwork.

Transitional kindergarten students experience what a leadership classroom looks like, sounds like and feels like in distance learning and in hybrid instruction. The 7 Habits are utilized at home and at school.

Kindergarten Students demonstrate how they practice mindfulness with their yoga routine. This video shows examples of how people sharpen the body, heart, mind, and spirit.

The 100th day of school is a big day in kindergarten. After a great deal of work with the number 100, students created their 100th day projects and presented them to the class. They explained what they did and how they knew they had 100.

-Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind

Build community. Make a deposit into Kindergarteners' emotional bank accounts. Learn about them and celebrate them for who they are. Without question, the greatest human need is to feel valued.

Student-led conferences allow students to select a personal and / or academic goal. Students then make a plan about how and when they would be able to complete their goal(s). Having an accountability partner at home helps them achieve their goal. Regular check-ins in the Google Classroom allow progress to be celebrated. Parents are given the opportunity to give their child written feedback in the form of a letter.

-Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

Listen to kindergarteners read to meet their academic goals. Celebrate their success as charted in their Leadership Notebook under Wilding Important Goals (WIGs).

-Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

Students make plans and build leprechaun catchers to try and catch a pesky leprechaun that is bothering our class. We are close, but we don't catch him this year, but there is always next year. We never give up!

-Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

This team building activity helps students learn more about each other and create community. As a result, a Win -Win environment is created. Think win-win is when two or more people commit to work together for the benefit of both people. Win-Win agreements can be made in almost any relationship or situation.

-Habit 4: Think Win-Win

Classroom Mission Statement