So much fun!

Today I volunteered in Kenan's kindergarten class and oh my word, was that fun!  These kids are so little and cute!  My jobs for the day were to do an assessment of each kid on the five senses and to put up a core knowledge bulletin board.  I also got to be the V.I.P reader for the day!

For the assessment I asked them 15 questions and wrote down their answers.  Some of the answers were the same like what the five senses were and what you used your eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and hands for.  Then I asked them to name something salty, sweet, bitter, and sour.  For sweet, the answers were mostly candy, and lemons (really?) one kid said honey and one said sweetarts.  For Salty the answers were pretzels and chips, salt, and crackers.  Sour was mostly lemons.  We had one lime and one sour patch kids. Yes, those are good answers too, I said.  Bitter, I think every kids said salad.  Oh, except Kenan who said broccoli.  Blankey's were a popular answer for something that is soft.  My favorite question was name a danger sound.  A couple kids said a siren or fire alarm.  Most kids would growl, roar or howl instead of actually telling me the word, which was fine.  Made for a pretty entertaining time.  The last question was why do we need our five senses?  Most every kids said something to the effect of "they keep us safe" or they help us to know to stay away from bad things and close to good things."  I thought that was the hardest question but they all did really well.

I got to decorate a bulletin board for the core knowledge subject about plants and how they grow.  That was fun because I got put on my creativity cap and put it up however I wanted.

When I was V.I.P reader Kenan was able to sit in the special green chair and I sat in the rocking chair.  We read Olivia and the Missing Toy.  Oh, and we read through Kenan's pirate sticker book.  He insisted that I read that today.  He even tried sneaking inside the Olivia book.  I told him he could put it in his backpack.  He showed his teacher and then wouldn't let me forget to read it.  So we read it.  Kenan was happy.

I helped get the kids settled for lunch and then I was on my way.  I had so much fun just getting to know each of the kids.  They are so funny and so adorable!  I think my favorite part was when Kenan finally realized I was in the classroom.  His whole face lit up and he just beamed.  I look forward to going back in a couple weeks.