brain sprinkles

Thursday was test day.  Writing test day.  We were given a prompt and each student had to write and draw about the prompt.  Before I gave the student their prompt I reminded each student of how smart they were and how I knew they were going to do great on their test!  After their pep talk I gave each student some brain sprinkles! 

They had to close their eyes as I sprinkled their brain and tell themselves how smart they were!

After a little while of working and I noticed the students were finished I let the students know they had a few more minutes to work. 

One student started to cry so I quickly walked over to him and asked him what was wrong.  He told me that he didn't have his sentence yet.  I encouraged him and suggested some more brain sprinkles.  He said in a very pouty voice, "no, because those things don't even work!" 

I told him that they do actually work but maybe he just needed a little more.  I gave him some more and made sure to rub them in this time!!!!

I plan to use the brain sprinkles more because by the end of the day I had a student come up to me and say, "Ms. Brown, I think those sprinkles are growing in my brain."

queen of the classroom

Each week in Kindergarten we study a different letter.  I try to plan fun activities to do with different words that start with the letter we are studying.  I like to read books that start with the letter and then write a sentence or two for our writing.  Some letters are just a little harder than others!  Whenever I buy books for my classroom I try to think if I have books that start with that letter or not. 
Q is one of those letters.  I didn't have any books to read so we just had to pick words and write sentences about things we already knew.  My favorite was writing about a queen...that would be ME!

(Ms. Brown is a queen.  She is queen over the classroom.  She is a pretty queen.) 

Look at my beautiful throne!!!