Celebrations All Around!

Marking the last day of classes for seniors is the tradition of bell ringing. Each senior selects a younger girl to help her ring the bell. Sasha was selected by a family friend headed to Dartmouth. It was a thrill for us all as we watched Sasha help pull the heavy rope! 

We celebrated the completion of our books with a special tea party. How proud everyone was to read

their book to their classmates. Each book was unique and wonderful, just like our girls! 

Technology: Book Creator

It is unbelievable that this year is coming to a close! The growth I have seen from the kindergarten girls is incredible. Their teachers and parents have done a wonderful job teaching and guiding them all year long. They began technology class by tracing alphabet letters and now they are creating an entire book. Last week, I introduced Book Creator. This is one of my favorite apps and it spans all ages: seniors in high school can find it just as useful as kindergarteners. As we are nearing summer, the book is about things the girls have loved this year. It already includes text, pictures, drawings, and recordings. I look forward to teaching them to create and insert videos in the coming weeks.

 

French: Bread and Chocolate

The girls had a blast today at their French picnic of bread and chocolate.  They did a great job ordering in French and remembering to share with their stuffed animals.  Here are a few pictures and a short video clip.

 

Shadows

This week we began our unit on shadows. We have had fun observing our shadows, thinking about what makes a shadow, and experimenting with how the position of the sun changes our shadows. We are creating a shadow book and generally enjoying the spring sunshine. It is so wonderful to finally see the sun!

Last Friday we had an unexpected and wonderful opportunity to meet a direct descent of one of our founders, M. Carey Thomas. Ms. Arnold is one of Bryn Mawr's oldest living alumni and her mother actually began the Kindergarten program at Bryn Mawr! Her mother went to Italy to study under Maria Montessori and returned with many of the theories for teaching young children that we still use in the classroom today. We sang one of our favorite songs for Ms. Arnold and enjoyed listening to some stories about Bryn Mawr way back when. What a treat!

Welcome May!

  After reading Miss Hunnicutt's Hat by Jeff Brumbeau and Gail de Marcken the girls' created their own May Day hat.  Each hat is marvelous and uniquely theirs. 

We then focused on the concepts of characters, setting, problem and the solution from the story we just heard.  Now our young authors are creating a story all their own following the formula.  In each story they are the main character dressed in their "May Bonnet" the rest of the story is up to them.  Such fun our budding authors are having!  They are looking forward to sharing the stories with their classmates. 

                     We enjoyed watching the Third Graders prepare for their May Pole Dance 

                                           that will open the Bazzar Saturday! 

                                      See you Saturday for a great Bazzar!