Club Day and The "Mitten" project

Today was our first Lower School Clubs Assembly--be sure to ask your daughter which club she participated in!

Both classes are working on a project where the girls will be able to retell the story of The Mitten using character cards.  These will be making their way home next week.

Hedgehogs and Magic Milk

During language arts, Mrs. McMahon's class continued working with the "et" word family.

And Mrs. Martin's class continued illustrating their hedgehog books.

During math, both classes began our 2-dimensional shapes unit.  Be sure to ask your daughter what a vertice is!

Mrs. Martin's class delved more into learning about hedgehogs and learned all about their hibernation, predators,  and what they eat to survive.

Mrs. McMahon's class conducted a magic milk experiment during science.  Be sure to ask your daughters what happened!

Gingerbread Houses

Twizzlers, marshmallows, and gumdrops, OH MY!  We decorated our houses today and the girls had a great time!

During math, Mrs. Martin's class worked more on graphing...

...and Mrs. McMahon's class discussed another one of Bryn Mawr's core values--resilience.  We shared stories about how each of us had to be resilient and then read Giraffes Can't Dance.  The girls shared different things they couldn't do yet and we talked about how we have to be resilient and keep working towards our goals.

Gingerbread EVERYWHERE

We are knee deep in our gingerbread unit and the girls are LOVING it.  Today, both classes used our Writer's Workshop time to start stories featuring Jan Brett's beloved hedgehog.  The girls will be working on these stories for the next two weeks.

In math, the girls reviewed graphing and graphed various gingerbread items (houses, rolling pins, etc).

Mrs. McMahon's class worked with the short e vowel sound using the "et" word family.

Mrs. Martin's girls had a chance to buddy read Jan Brett books on our new bean bag chairs.

Mrs. McMahon's class read Georgie the Gingerbread Fairy and made gingerbread playdough!  Here is a link to the recipe if you would like to make some at home.

Acting and Even/Odd

Calling all acting agents!  The kindergarten girls re-enacted The Mitten by Jan Brett and truly went "all in" with their acting.

In math, both classes spent another day working with even and odd numbers.  Be sure to ask your daughter which activity she participated in!

The Mitten

This morning, the girls listened to The Mitten by Jan Brett. 

Afterwards, we discussed the characters that Jan Brett used in her book and created her favorite (hedgehog) our of model magic!

Sneaky Gingerbread People

Today, the girls acted out Gingerbread Baby.  Afterwards, each class made a list of where their gingerbread people would run away to if they were at Bryn Mawr.

While the girls were at recess, the sneaky gingerbread people (that the girls made yesterday) ran away from Mrs. Martin and Mrs. McMahon!  The girls then went on a hunt to find their gingerbread people.

After all of the girls found their gingerbread people, we returned to our classroom and created a class book of the different places our gingerbread people went during recess.

This afternoon, we had a virtual drawing lesson from Jan Brett herself and learned how to draw her famous hedgehog!