Kindergarten · A Teacher, Her Students, and a Year of Learning by Diamond, Julie -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Dedication Foreword PERMISSIONS Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 - August: Beginning the Year

Opening Up the Room Names Taking Time

Chapter 2 - Routines and Rituals: Making the Room Theirs

The Need for Routines Signs and Labels Where Does This Go? Organizing the Day Protecting Group Life Dilemmas The Click Club: Sharing Power What Rituals Tell Us

Chapter 3 - Collages: Making Art

Painting, and Painting Over “How Did You Make That?” Yellow Skin and Orange Hair Mixing Media A Path That Doesn’t Go Any Place Special Art in the Curriculum

Chapter 4 - Finding Curriculum: A Study of Squirrels

Tooth Marks: Children Observe the World Around Them Investigations Questions and Answers A Theory of Curriculum Moving Back and Forth A Last Trip to the Park “What About Standards?” “I Love Sea Horses!” More Questions

Chapter 5 - The Uses of Literacy: Constructing Knowledge

Talk: What’s the Point? The Daddies Turn into a Mountain Themes in Literature Literacy Goals Fish Juice: Talking, Reading, Writing, and Drawing About Real Things Thinking about Language Acquisition

Chapter 6 - The Uses of Literacy: Reading and Writing

Names and Other Words Beginning Where They Are Programmed Instruction “Let’s Write That Down”

Chapter 7 - Midwinter Doldrums and Quarrels

Starting Over “She Did It First!” What Do We Mean by Managing a Class? Valuing Childhood Wasting Paper

Chapter 8 - Welcome to the Aquarium: Knowing One Child

Teacher Talk First Impressions of Henry Teacher and Parents, I Henry at Work Teacher and Parents, II Henry at the End of the Year

Chapter 9 - June: Meanings and Metaphors at the End of the Year

Paper Casts: Classroom Metaphors Ambivalent Feelings Packing Up

Chapter 10 - Postscript: Being a Teacher

Choosing to Teach Staying in the Classroom The Teaching Environment Ourselves as Resources

NOTES CHILDREN’S BOOKS CITED INDEX THE NEW PRESS TITLES OF RELATED INTEREST Copyright Page