1. Activity time--Some teachers call it play time or choice time. Children learn to play, share, and negotiate. It is interesting to observe what happens! Each child has his/her favorite activity or center, but they also need to try out some new things. Also each child has special friends, but needs encouragement to work and play with other classmates.
2. Reading--All kinds! Story time where I read books to the class, shared reading with big books, and quiet reading time where children chose the books they wanted to look at or read.
3. Math--Math stations were always amazing! I loved letting children choose math activities. Every year I would see children use the materials in ways I had never seen before. I also loved days when we did math graphs, the estimating jar, or played math games.
4. Science--When I began teaching kindergarten in the 1980's we did not have a science curriculum. I had a wonderful time making up my own science projects and activities! When I was cleaning out my classroom I felt very nostalgic as I went through the tubs of items from those days. But when we had a more structured curriculum, I still totally enjoyed our units. It was also exciting to bring in some of my other ideas from time to time!
5. Writing--Few children enter kindergarten as writers, but everyone who left my kindergarten was a writer! It is so exciting to see children begin to put their ideas on paper!
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