All About Me

I do al All about ME unit in first grade too.  Part of it is to make a ME
book. The book is shaped like a head.  They decorate the cover to resemble a
self portrait using crayons or paint, yarn for hair and wiggly eyes.  Then
each page has a different prompt.  You may need to modify for kinder.  My
pages say:
1. My name is ______________.
I am ______ years old.

2. I go to _______________Elementary School.  This is how  it looks:

3. This is my family: (picture)
There are _____people in my family.

4. This is where I live: (picture)
My address is___________________.

5.This is  a new friend I made in First grade.(picture)
My friend is __________.

6.This is my teacher: (picture--usually HILARIOUS!!)
Her name is Mrs. ___________.

They work on them and then display them on their desks for the first open
house.  I let the parents take them home then.  By then the books have been
seen by everyone in our class. I type the prompts out leaving blanks to fill
in info.  I precut them in the shape of a head. Makes a cute keepsake. I am
going to try to make the ME bags this year too.  Lisa

All About Me theme:

Supplies for that theme:
paperplates for faces
yarn for hair
squiggly eyes
scrunchy paper for hair
laminated tag board for graphing parts of body, likes and dislikes,
name activities.
mirror for self portraits, done once a month
lined story paper for drawing a story about them, and doing
dictation.
one good Biography sheet
paint for handprints and footprints, tempera
watercolors
pre cut multicultural children
pre cut hands
pre cut faces  (have seen them all at teacher stores)
a side of a cardboard box, to be used for face, biography
handprints and footprints
blanket for game, Who’s Under the Blanket?
Name Bingo cards
2 photographs from home
baby picture
letter on how they got their name
**Books from the library :  I Like Me
         Chrysanthemum
         Sheila the Brave
Many can be found on KinderKorner website
stamp pad for making fingerprint pictures
magnifying glasses to see how our fingerprints are different
MORE BOOKS:  Feelings Alike/Different Much Bigger Than
Martin The New Baby Friends Just Like My Daddy Mary Wore
Her Red Dress Shoes from Grandpa Clifford’s Family Harold and
the Purple Crayon The Silly Birthday Book Something Special The
Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings Two Eyes, Two Ears, One Nose I
am Special The Mixed-Up Chameleon
Poems/Songs

Feelings Alike/Different Much Bigger Than Martin The New Baby
Friends Just Like My Daddy Mary Wore Her Red Dress Shoes
from Grandpa Clifford’s Family Harold and the Purple Crayon The
Silly Birthday Book Something Special The Rabbit Who Wanted
Red Wings Two Eyes, Two Ears, One Nose I am Special The
Mixed-Up Chameleon



Pre made book for child to tell something's about themselves

Scale for weighing
Height chart
Markers
Plenty of paper
Stickers of body parts
Students names on sentence strips, so they will learn their names
Also, their names written on sentence strips so that they can
trace over them, for writing practice.
File in writing center of children's names for others to practice.
Sensory type materials,  old camera containers with different
smells
Playdough

Cooking:  Happy Face Pancakes, things to put on the
pancakes, like chocolate chip eyes, licorice mouth, etc.

Art:  Cookie Cutter families
     Sponges of letters for their names
Paperbag houses
Life size cutouts of the children, do one part a day, so you
need large paper from bulletin boards





MUSIC THAT TALKS ABOUT  “ME”

Put Your Finger In The Air  Greg & Steve, Playing Favorites
Sunshine Medley Greg & Steve, Rocking Down the Road
Put Your Hands Up In the Air    Hap Palmer, Learning Basic
Skills 
Do Your Ears Hang Low?  Barneys Favorites  
Mail Myself To You  *Music & You Kindergarten CD#4 
I Am A Person   *Music & You Kindergarten CD#  
AN IDEA for a Biography:
"All About Us Books."
1. I asked each family to send in a picture of their child.
2. Each child decorated a piece of construction paper in whatever
manner they wished....using bingo
daubbers/markers/crayons/stamps & stamp
pads/ stickers etc. etc. etc. Then we placed a piece of double
stick tape to
the back of their picture and they taped their picture anywhere
they wanted onto their decorated
construction paper.
3. I typed and ran off the following questions for each child to
answer.
MY NAME IS____________________. (child wrote own name)
I HAVE __________SISTERS AND _________BROTHERS.
(Child used number
stickers to fill in answer.)
I HAVE A PET _______________________. (Child chose an
animal sticker
that depicted their pet or left this blank.)
I LIKE THE COLOR ______________. (Child chose a crayon
sticker or used markers to color the answer.)
I LIKE TO EAT ___________. (Answer was dictated by child and
written
by teacher.)
AT HOME I LIKE TO ________. (Answer was dictated by child
and written
by teacher.)
AT SCHOOL I LIKE TO_______. (Answer was dictated by child
and written
by teacher.)
4. I took the two finished pages from each child and bound them
together
with the rest of the class's to make an "ALL ABOUT US BOOK!"
5. We pulled a name each day from our LET'S TAKE TURNS BOX
and that
person got to take the book home for one night to share with
his/her
family.


Picture frames with craft sticks, decorate with sequins, etc.


COUNTING with thumbprints, make a book
Family Trees, send home a letter for names of parents,
grandparents and brothers and sisters

Snack time placemat, draw one, laminate it for each child

Rice Cake faces

“Me” box : Decorate a box to send home.  Each child brings in 4 or
5 items to share about them

Lots of fingerplays, cooperative games and graphing