Students practiced taking turns talking and listening to their learning partners. Students brainstormed ideas of how learning partners would know you were listening, ideas of how to use our bodies to show that we are listening, ways to negotiate who speaks first and who listens first. Our first activity was to share your favorite food with a partner. Later we used our partners to make predictions about a story. Learning partners are a HUGE part of kindergarten and we will be practicing daily with a variety of activities to lay the foundation of how to be a successful learning partner.
