The Berenstain Bears

Classroom procedures are important for every grade level but especially in a kindergarten classroom. Teachers talk about them, teach them, model them and practice them. It is essential to establish routines and procedures involving classroom basics, working procedures, hallway procedures as well as lunch and cafeteria routines. There are a myriad of additional routines involving bathroom, recess, dismissal and bus behavior. I consider the following fifteen procedures/routines to be important in…

around a cane. The tip of Pikachu’s tail isn’t black. I even remember seeing his tail diped in black when I would watch the cartoon growing up. “The Berenstein Bears” are actually called “the Berenstain Bears.” This is considered to be one of the main Mandela effects people seem to talk about on a day to day basis. Its about a family of bears that was a book series and a cartoon show. Curious George never had a tail. This one I remember him not having a tail so it doesn’t bother me as much but…

reading large part of my life; she always read to me and my sisters before bed and trips to the library for preschool story time or to check out books to read myself were common. In preschool and kindergarten it was picture books; Froggy, The Berenstain Bears, and Arthur. As I progressed through elementary school we moved on to several chapter book series; Junie B. Jones, Animal Ark, and the Saddle Club. Reading a bedtime story was a…

When you reflect on your past, who you were, what you did and what you learned, it can all tell you a lot about who you are in the present moment. Writing a literacy autobiography can help someone to better understand how and why they may read and write the way that they do. A literacy autobiography will help oneself to reflect, make connections and show how their beliefs and practices came to be when it come to literacy. When I think about my own literacy journey, it can be very difficult to…

As I sit on a colorful carpet listening to my pre-kindergarten teacher, who just happened to be a friend of the family, reading The Berenstain Bears was one of my first memories of learning to read. She would slowly read word-for-word and demonstration what she was reading, and of course show each picture she came across. Once she finished reading to us, now we sit at our color orientated tables learning the alphabet and numbers. Singing our, a, b, c 's, and our one, two, threes, while subtle…

“Memory – like liberty – is a fragile thing.” - Elizabeth Loftus. We tend to think about memories like photographs. They’re snippets of the past, and we go over the most monumental (or embarrassing) moments in our lives time and time again, sometimes just to remind ourselves of who we are. It's such a fundamental part of our daily routines that we forget how reliant we are on memories. Every thing from the taste of strawberries to the name of that film you saw yesterday are all parts of what…

I was never the child to sit around bored constantly. If I found myself bored, I would go grab a book. My mom and dad read to me every night as a child and when I could read on my own, they let me read alone before bed. They were always the parents who thought that “the single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children,” (Anderson, Hiebert, Scott, and Wilkson 23). They taught me how to love reading and made sure I…