Dear Honeybee Families, We had a really good busy week in space. Mike and Ava shared their old school overhead projector, and we've been playing in our space projections. I think a lot of the kids were very cautious and needed a lot of ... [Read More]
The Friendly Foxes :: Week 20
Hello, Friendly Fox Families!We've had a wonderful week learning all about the Arctic region and the animals that live there. We have looked at the globe every day and talked about the North Pole, the Arctic Circle, how cold it is and how amazing it ... [Read More]
The Honeybees :: Week 19
We are hovering in outer space as some of our friends have been out sick this week, and by hovering I mean playing in our rocketship, making beautiful galactic art while listening to experimental jazz, and learning new building techniques from our ... [Read More]
The Friendly Foxes :: Week 19
Hello, Friendly Fox Families!What a wonderful week we've had with our Jan Brett books theme!We are reading our way through many of her beautifully written and illustrated books, and are enjoying them so very much. The children are listening so ... [Read More]
The Bluebirds :: Week 18
Hello, Bluebird Families! I hope you all enjoyed some time together over the long weekend, with Martin Luther King, Jr. observance day on Monday. We had another fun, but short week in Kindergarten! We jumped into our studies, comparing a globe and a ... [Read More]
The Honeybees :: Week 18
The Honeybees are headed for space, and this idea is creating a lot of conversation. We began with a simple picture book called "I Want to Be An Astronaut" and asked questions about what we knew about outer space and what we wanted to learn. We ... [Read More]
The Friendly Foxes :: Week 18
Hello, Friendly Fox Families!We certainly squeezed a lot of fun activities into this short week of school! I hope everyone enjoyed their time together over the Martin Luther King, Jr. observance day. The children have been playing so beautifully ... [Read More]
The Honeybees :: Week 17
Fee Fi Fo Fum, we've been listening to an audiobook and talking about Jack and the Beanstalk. We've been playing in the castle, hiding the golden eggs, and wondering why Jack climbed the beanstalk in the first place. We talked about the order of ... [Read More]
The Friendly Foxes :: Week 17
Hello, Friendly Fox Families!We've had a wonderful week of Winter and Snow studies and activities, and we've begun our "Animals in Winter" unit. It may snow tomorrow (Saturday) so maybe your child can tell you all about some of the fun things we've ... [Read More]
The Bluebirds :: Week 17
Hello, Bluebird Familes! This week we continued our Arctic adventures! We discovered more about dogsledding, like how dogs work together to pull a dog sled and the very special relationship between mushers and their sled dogs. We learned about the ... [Read More]