Busy in Tech

Kindergarten has been busy in tech this month!  The girls have learned a variety of new iPad skills and apps.  During the first week of school, the girls learned iPad basics (home button, lock key, volume, how to close an app, changing the home and lock screen image) and acceptable use (how to hold and travel with the iPad, rules of use, etc.).  Next, the girls learned how to use the Little Writer app while Google Drive was set up on each iPad.  This year, students will be able to save work to Google Drive.  Information on accessing your daughter's Drive will be coming home in the future so that you can view the work from home!  Finally, the girls learned two more apps:  Scribble My Story and PicPlayPost.  In Scribble My Story, the girls used pre-made templates to complete a book about themselves.  In PicPlayPost, the girls used photos of circles taken during art class to create a 4 picture presentation.  

So much to explore!

We have been exploring, practicing, and discovering this week!

Milkweed in our butterfly garden. We observed the seeds that fly in the wind.

Teamwork to finish a butterfly puzzle

More teamwork!

Practice writing number words, numbers, and filling ten-frames

Hard at work

Our first parent reader!

Exploring butterfly books

Smiles!

Reading together

Art: Circles & Ideas

The girls started their first big work of art with circles.  They traced circles from objects all over the studio onto their papers considering the 4 compositional possibilities: floating, touching, overlapping, and inside each other.

Then, we read What Do You Do With an Idea? about a boy who has an idea and learns how to nurture it and play with it until the idea is big enough to share with the world.  We now refer to the circles on the girls papers as "ideas" and will fill them all up with a variety of materials and techniques.

WE LOVE SCIENCE AND MATH !

This has been an exciting week. 

A favorite moment is our parade each morning

 while we sing  Make America Proud of You !

                                                     

We learned about graphing.

We searched the room for the numbers 1-10.

  With friends we created many number lines.

Exploring and creating with friends.

Being a scientist is thrilling. 

We continue to wait patiently for the next stage of our 

caterpillars!

Acting out what it would feel like to be in a chrysalis.

WOW.......Metamorphosis !

Dancing Butterflies to music.

SO WE WILL WAIT PATIENTLY !

WE  SLOW DOWN TO NOTICE AND WONDER 

AND BE THRILLED WHEN WE FIND A CATERPILLAR

ON A MILKWEED PLANT OUTSIDE!

Welcome to Bryn Mawr!

Welcome to Bryn Mawr!

We are thrilled to have each and every one of our 22 girls with us in Kindergarten this year! It has been a busy start to the year and we are excited to share many of our adventures with you on this blog. Please check back regularly for updates and pictures!

Mrs. Martin's Class

Mrs. Mawhiney's Class

Exploring the Discovery Center

Observing our new class pets!

Reading in the garden

All school assembly on our first day. Mrs. Nothstein announced each of our names!

Exploring our campus

Reading with the third graders

                                   

Values Class with the Kindergarten Girls

The Kindergarten girls met me for the first time this past Friday. I welcomed them to BMS. 

We are so happy they are here! They let me know how happy they are to be in school, and told me 

about all the fun things they did in the first few days. We introduced ourselves and talked about 

building a Classroom Community.

I gave each Kindergarten student their own homemade flower, and we compared them and their class to a flower garden. Each girl is like a flower, special in her own way, and needing care from themselves, their family, and school. We spoke about how we care for ourselves and how we treat others.