Hello! This week we delved even deeper into the topic of kindness. The students completed and presented their kindness journals, and it was amazing how many acts of kindness the students were able to identify! We also discussed who we should be ... [Read More]
Kindness Week part 1
Hello! This week the Superstars approached a very interesting and important topic -- Kindness. We read some stories about random acts of kindness, talked about the importance of kindness, and some concrete ways to be kind to others. As part of ... [Read More]
Friendly Foxes :: Week 18
Hello, Friendly Foxes! Last week we had a wonderful time wrapping up our Winter Animal Behavior unit and learning all about caves and bats. We continued to play with some of our Winter sensory play materials and even made a class book about what ... [Read More]
Honey Bees :: Week 18
We wrapped up our long unit on polar geography, animals, and culture on Friday. We took turns being the musher or the dogs on my sled in the middle of the circle. I met with each child individually and talked about the totem pole and totem animals ... [Read More]
The Honey Bees :: Week Seventeen
The resilient Honey Bees made it through another wintery week in our Arctic class. We investigated a map of the world oriented on the floor and spent circle time sitting in the North, South, East, and West. We could also translate those positions ... [Read More]
The Friendly Foxes :: Week Seventeen
Dear Friendly Fox families, We squeezed a lot of fun things into this past week of school. We continued our Winter Animal Behavior unit by studying hiberation and adaptation. We learned about hibernation and discovered that bears experience their ... [Read More]
The Honey Bees :: Week 16
The Honey Bees continued their study of arctic animals, culture, and geography last week. Hopefully we'll return to school tomorrow after our Arctic ice storm. So nice of mother nature to participate in our theme. This past week we ... [Read More]
Kindergarten Superstars — Plant Week!
It was a fun and windy week here in the Kindergarten classroom during plant week! The class had fun learning about photosynthesis, what all plants need to grow, and about various types of plants. When the class found out that plants "breath in" ... [Read More]
The Friendly Foxes :: Week 16
Dear Friendly Fox Families, Hooray for a perfectly timed snow event, just as we are discussing the science of snow in class! This week we continued our Winter theme with lots of fun and engaging activities. We read an amazing book entitled "The ... [Read More]
The Friendly Foxes : Week 15
Dear Friendly Fox Families, Happy New Year! We are excited to see our friends returning to school and to share our stories about what we did over Winter Break. This past week we talked about all the exciting changes that happened over the ... [Read More]
