First Day of School Activities for Kindergarten

It was my first day back to school today...so I thought I'd share what we did 

{before I fall over LOL}

This morning I read from Max Lucado's book You Are Special, and did this little lesson from Cara.

Before I read the story, I had my students sit in a circle. I passed a red paper heart to one of my students, and instructed him to crumple the heart a little bit when he heard something that was unkind in the story, then pass the heart on to the next person. By the end of the story our heart looked like this:

I had my students put band-aids onto the heart to show that even though we can't completely fix the heart, we can try to make people's hearts feel better. Their names are printed on the bandaids:

We hung the heart under our school's theme {simplified version} that describes attributes we should show:

compassion, gentleness, kindness, patience, humility

{Big words & concepts, but explained well at their level with the heart lesson...and with "bucket-filling", which will be introduced later this week!}

Here's my bulletin board ready for the bucket-filling lesson:

It will be a visual reminder to always be kind, and to "fill people's buckets".

Today we also:

tweeted on our Twitter door

...completed this 1st day of school page from my Back To School Booklet

...filled in our First Day of School Impressions sheet to let our parents know that our first day of school was FANTASTIC

...and made this School Is Cool bulletin board from Miss Kindergarten

{here}