My Turn at the Easel

With three school days left until Winter Break, my kindergartners are “losing it.”  I was feeling bad, thinking that it’s my fault that they are less self controlled; thinking that it’s because I am getting crabby and it’s making them crabby.   But when several enter the class saying crabby with each other, I think that it’s something bigger than me.  I’m not so sure that things get better after an hour in my room, so that’s frustrating.

There are only two more kindergarten classes before break and we have things to do that must be done before break.  In January, I’ll try to start fresh with them.  An hour is a long time to be in art.  I think that when they come back, I’ll lead them through a lesson and then not teach anything else.  I will give them art “free choice.”  Blocks.  Tangrams.  Drawing.  Whatever else I can think of in that vein.

These kindergarteners are printing patterns on a grid.