This week saw the successful hatching of our butterflies! We fed them for a day and then released them so they could begin their long journey to Mexico. Our unit has ended with the completion of our butterfly life cycle posters, and each child did a fabuous job. They’re on the bulletin board – come and take a look!
A monarch on its way!
(photo: Amy Hilliard)
Buen viaje, butterflies! Have a good trip!
(photo: Amy Hilliard)
Our new unit is a study of the human body. We start with the skeleton, learning the names of the major bones of the body, and move on to the major organs and their functions. This month will be a mix of the factual and the fanciful, for as Halloween approaches we’ll start seeing more skeletons and other ghoulish creatures appear. Sometimes these images are disturbing or scary to young children, and so we spend time exploring feelings this month as well.
Yesterday my 30-year-old daughter visited the school. Monica is part of a dance and choreographic trio based in Minneapolis, and she and her two colleagues were in town doing research for their next project. In the afternoon, they led a theater workshop with Amy Brentano’s 7th and 8th grade theater students, but in the morning, kindergarten got to enjoy a mini-workshop, too, where they got to enact the life cycle of a butterfly, and move like other animals, too – grasshoppers, lizards, elephants and giraffes! The class had a great time.
Grasshoppers!
Chrysalises at rest
Lumbering elephants
We had fun moving!
In math, we continue to work on identifying and extending patterns. This week we got pretty complex – ABBC, ABCCC, ABAC. The class is doing a terrific job!
BCD has started a school-wide drive to collect fleece outerwear that will be donated to a girls school in Nepal. If your child has any fleece that they’ve outgrown or no longer wear that is clean and in good used condition, please send it in. Donations will be accepted until Tuesday, Nov. 26. Thank you!
Have a great weekend!
Andrea
Great blog, Andrea! Love it! Paula Suters
I love reading the K blog.Looking forward to meeting you at grandparent’s visiting day.Thanks, Peggy Bennett