More fall fun, ordinal numbers, and butterflies

Both kindergarten classes listened to different stories about fall.  Then each class brainstormed their favorite parts of the fall season.  The girls are going to use their ideas for a new entry in their storybooks.

In math, we began learning about ordinal numbers.  Mrs. Martin's class learned a fun song about the ordinals numbers.

Mrs. McMahon's girls began ordering different math manipulatives.

In science, the girls are continuing to learn the different stages of butterflies.  Below, the girls are making the egg and caterpillar stages out of Model Magic.

Fall poem fun and special visitors

We are embracing the fall season in our kindergarten room.  Today, the girls learned a new poem about leaves then acted out the poem using scarves.

We had special visitors from the first grade come in and read to us a poem that they have been working on during their reader's theater.

To end our day, the girls enjoyed reading with their third grade buddies.

Math and Fall Birthdays

In math, Mrs. Martin's class continued to work with 10 frames and writing their numbers...

...while Mrs. McMahon's class focused on "more and less."  The girls rolled a die twice, built two structures based on the numbers they rolled, then labeled which structure was more and which had less.

We celebrated our fall birthdays today!

Caterpillars and Parent Reader

Mrs. Caruso stopped by our classroom this morning to teach the girls a new app--My Story.  The girls will be using this app to document and journal the life journey of our caterpillars.

We also have been talking about the concept of more and fewer during math class.  Here is Mrs. Martin's class in action!

We also had another parent read this afternoon!

Visit to the Head of School

The kindergarteners took a quick walk up the hill to visit our new Head of School, Sue Sadler.  The girls listened to a story and then got a chance to sing a special song.  Be sure to check out the shoutthelovebms Instagram page!

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.