Art_Quilts and More Quilts!!!

The paper quilts turned out great! Hours of work typically yields great results in the art studio! 

Now the girls are making mini fabric quilts. They are selecting fabric palettes, tracing wooden blocks, and cutting various shapes to piece together. 

French: Visit from the Upper School French students

This week is national French week and we celebrated by having two French classes from the Upper School come and visit.  On Wednesday, a French 1 class came to visit Ms. Mawhiney's class.  The Kindergarten girls sang several songs for the big kids and then the big kids led a multilingual version of Frère Jaques with English, French, and even Chinese.  On Thursday, the French 4 class came to visit Mrs. Martin's class.  The Kindergarten girls taught them a few French songs and then the big kids read French children's books to the Kindergarteners.   Everyone really enjoyed this special opportunity.

Fall Exploration and Fun!

Our Fall Season EMERGED with Babies and Butterflies !

WELCOME TO THE WORLD!

All Nine Monarch Butterflies migrated to Mexico!

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR EXPANDING BRYN MAWR FAMILY!

October 31st welcomed princesses, pirates, and many magical characters. 

Learning adding and subtracting through our "Five Little Pumpkin" song. 

We loved learning about parallel lines when we made our pumpkin Jack o lanterns!

A favorite time of the week is when we spend time with our Third Grade Readers.

We predicted through a riddle :

What is round and shiny 

It does not have windows 

It does not have doors 

It has a star inside.

What is it?

Please ask me and I will show you!

We are excited to be SCIENTIST!

Our leaf exploration took us to the Owl Gate to gather 

Maple, Oak and Dogwood leaves. 

We were surprised that the bark was different on each tree.

After reading Yellow Time by Lauren Stringer 

We decided to press the leaves we collected 

on our walk just like the little girl in the story.

We were able to separate and identify 

Maple, Oak and Dogwood leaves. 

Acting out our Fall poems is such fun! 

Outside. 

Inside. 

In math we learned the world is filled with symmetrical things. 

Wow, symmetrical trees are beautiful. 

Each tree we made, is, as special and unique as we are. 

EACH DAY IS FILLED WITH NEW EXCITEMENT!

Art_Paper Quilts

Kindergarteners are making paper quilts! They have looked at the quilts of Gee's Bend for inspiration. They are using art materials to create different surface qualities like different fabrics have different textures.  

First, they painted one shape many times following 4 rules: touching, floating, inside each other, and overlapping. Next, they filled in one shape with graphite to make leather, marker to make satin, crayon to make velvet, and wax resist to make corduroy.  They, of course, loved touching the samples or fabric.

The next class they added patterns to their quilts. We looked at floral patterns and geometric patterns. They chose one of each to copy onto their quilts. They are learning as they fill the paper, that quilts take a long time to make!!!

From the Library

Kindergarten has been reading some great books about friendship in Library. We started off with Elmer by David McKee, and continued with Elmer’s Special Day. Ask your daughter how Elmer is alike and different from the other elephants and how his friends feel about him.  We’ve also read two newer books, Looking for Bongo and Excellent Ed.  Ed lives with a human family in which everyone is excellent at something and Ed figures out his strength.  Right now we are well into James Marshall’s series George and Martha. Each book has five short stories about two great friends.  George and Martha have been around for a long time, and they remain beloved characters.