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.

Art_Painting a Portfolio

The girls started painting with tempera paints using the individual desks as pop-up easels. They painted 4 or 5 painitings independently with an artists' crit in the middle.  They learned to look at their paintings for things that are the SAME and things that are DIFFERENT. Then, they continued painting with intention to paint more the same or more different. This introductory "critique" helps draw out the common art language called "elements" including color, line, shape, texture, space, value, and form. 

French: Welcoming the first butterfly

The girls were very excited to welcome their first butterfly to the kindergarten classroom.  We learned a little song in French to sing to the butterfly.  We hope it will help him to fly.

A WEEK OF CELEBRATION !

We had fun during Founders Week. 

We learned about the five women who found Bryn Mawr.

We had a wonderful tea party pretending to be a founder.

Ask me which founder I was!

Mary Garrett

Julia Rogers

Mamie Gwinn 

Elizabeth King

M. Carey Thomas

Our Tea Party

 We loved being founders who gathered 

to talk about making a new school 

where girls could learn anything they wanted to!

Drawing pictures of the five founders in our storybooks. 

We learned how different they looked long ago. 

We went on a journey to see important people and find the Bryn Mawr Seal.

Visiting the portrait of Miss Edith Hamilton. 

She was first head Mistress of Bryn Mawr.

We each told her what we want to learn!

We had great ideas, reading, science, math

and all about butterflies!

We had a fun visit with Ms. Maureen Walsh. 

She is the Head of Bryn Mawr School.  

Our visit to Ms. Walsh was on 

Spirit Day.

She could tell how much spirit we had!

Sharing delicious daisy cupcakes made by 

Caroline's Mommy to celebrate fall birthdays. 

                                    Memories from our first fun Spirit Day!

                                     Carrots, crackers, celery and cream cheese make the
                                                       BEST  BRYN MAWR DAISIES!
                                                           

                                                          Waiting and observing each day.
                                                               Each  caterpillar is now a
                                                                          chrysalis!

                                                             

Acting out the stages of a Butterfly. 

                                                                         


                                       Making the egg, caterpillar and chewed milk weed leaf.

                                       Finding more milkweed for those hungry caterpillars!

                                   

                                   We love being scientists, recording what we observe and recording                                                                            what happened to our caterpillars.

                                                                  We are waiting for
                                                        metamorphosis
                                                                              and
                          Mrs. Mawhiney's baby
                                                          We are so excited!

                                     

Technology in the Creation Station

During Technology in the Creation Station, the girls have been busy learning the rules and routines and iPad basics like, turning on the iPad, locking the iPad, taking a picture and opening and closing apps.  We have also worked in two different apps.  The first app we learned was Little Writer.  The second app we learned was PicCollage.  In PicCollage we have added several pictures to our fall collage.  We have just started the app MyStory.  We will be creating an ABC book throughout the year.

Technology in the Creation Station

During Technology in the Creation Station, the girls have been busy learning the rules and routines and iPad basics like, turning on the iPad, locking the iPad, taking a picture and opening and closing apps.  We have also worked in two different apps.  The first app we learned was Little Writer.  The second app we learned was PicCollage.  In PicCollage we have added several pictures to our fall collage.