Meet Wiggles.

This year I used some new resources from HeidiSongs with my Kindergarten friends as we learned about following the rules and paying attention. I used a dog puppet and the books Wiggles Learns the Rules at School and Wiggles Learns to Pay Attention. I watched Heidi's video (found here) and used this strategy of students saying "no no Wiggles" along with the book to all of the wrong behaviors Wiggles has. They LOVED it! After each reading we learned a song from the HeidiSongs Music for Classroom Management DVD and made a Wiggles craft. I found both of these books and lessons to be ones students enjoyed. A 1st grader came into my classroom a few days later wanting to meet Wiggles because he'd heard about him from his Kindergarten brother - success!

After reading Wiggles Learns the Rules at School, we learned the song "Follow the Rules." We made a Wiggles puppet. Then we read the story again with all of the students using their Wiggles puppet just as I'd used mine on the first reading.

Here we are singing our "Follow the Rules" song. 

After reading Wiggles Learns to Pay Attention, we learned the song "No Interrupting." I videoed students singing this song and we watched the clip of their performance at the end of the lesson. We made a "good listener" badge like the one Wiggles received in the story.