Habit 1: Be Proactive

 Pick up this craftivity on TPT by Michaela Peterson.

We have spent the first 6 weeks of kindergarten diving into the first habit.  For kindergarten it is a meaty concept and encompasses a lot of different behaviors:

I'm in Charge of Me

I Choose My Own Weather

I Make My Own Fun

I Follow the Rules Even When Someone Isn't Watching

I Try New Things

I'm Proactive, Not Reactive (I'm Like Water, Not Soda)

This was a neat creativity that I simplified for Kindergarten so that it didn't take too long.  Each student thought of a way they could be proactive for a shared writing.

October seems like a good time to start Habit 2: Begin with the end in Mind.  The first quarter is coming to a close.  We will record our first assessment results in  our data binders and will soon have new data to enter.  We will also be turning up the heat in our Kindergarten Challenge to learn all the names and sounds of the letters by Halloween.

The Leader in Me - Habit 1: Be Proactive

Be Proactive - The Little Engine That Could

To help my kindergarten students begin to understand Habit 1 - Be Proactive we read The Little Engine That Could.  We had already discussed the many things that the students are already experts at doing.  We also have come to the conclusion that the students are at school to learn more!  Learning new things can be hard and we used this book to begin a discussion about believing in yourself and not giving up.  We also made these little engines to help us remember our mantra "I think I can!"

I got the pattern from DLTK's Crafts for Kids.  The I Think I Can poster can be ordered from Melissa Taylor's Luvocracy.com website.

The Little Engine That Could