Art: Shapes and Arrangements

Kindergarten girls have begun making painted quilts in art. They practiced drawing and naming geometric shapes and arranging shapes touching, floating, overlapping, and inside each other. Girls chose a shape to repeat using paint and they will add onto their "quilt" with a variety of other art materials!

Cooperation

We brought the entire kindergarten together to discuss our second core value, cooperation. We read Swimmy and talked about how all of the fish needed to cooperate in order to chase away the big fish. Then the girls were paired up with a friend from the other class and had to cooperate and build a tower made out of playdough and toothpicks.  

Hopes and Dreams, More Science, & a Parent Reader

For the past two days, the girls have been talking about reasons they come to school and what they want to learn this year in kindergarten.  Today, the girls drew their hopes and dreams for our school year.  Some hopes were "make a new friend" and "learn how to read."  Be sure to ask your daughter what her hope was!

Mrs. McMahon's class got their chance to become scientists today. First, the girls brainstormed what scientists do.  Then the girls went outside to observe nature around them.  Ask your daughter what she observed today!

Mrs. Martin's class explored writing numbers with shaving cream.

We had our first parent reader today!

Handwriting, math, and science observations

The girls had an extremely busy Monday; we are so excited to have them for a whole five days of school this week!

Mrs. McMahon's girls practiced correctly forming the numbers 1-3 in shaving cream--our room smelled very clean for the first hour 😊

In math, we focused on the word "more."  The girls played number BINGO where they rolled a die and then added one more to the number they rolled.  Finally they covered that number on their board...

...while Mrs. Martin's class were introduced to ten frames.

Mrs. Martin's class also became scientists; they went to our Science Center and were introduced to Mrs. Miyasaki (who graciously introduced the girls to her menagerie). Afterwards, the girls took their iPads outside and quietly observed the nature around them. 

Story Books

The girls wrote about their favorite part of school in their story books this morning.  Make sure you grab their books at Parent Night and check out what your daughter looks forward to every day!

Math and a Special Reader

Today in math, the girls continued to develop their number sense as they sequenced numbers, worked on one-to-one correspondence, and practiced writing their numbers.

During our designated parent reader slot, we had a very special guest reader, Mrs. Laurie Vennes, new Head of Lower School!

First Week!

We have had a wonderful time getting to know your daughters and are looking forward to the year ahead.  The girls are working on patterns and sequencing numbers in math...take a peek at what they have been doing!