Thank you families for making our classroom Valentine's Day celebration so special on Friday. The food was delicious. Students loved decorating their cookies! I was surprised by the amount of fruit they all ate. The children were so excited to give each other Valentines. It is great to have a day that celebrates friendship and caring. What a wonderful way to strengthen community.
Today Mae Quilty, the Farm to School Coordinator, came into our classroom to teach us about cabbage. First, she read us a book, How Did That Get In My Lunchbox?, the story of food. Our class learned a lot about where food comes from. Then we sorted pictures of food and decided if the food items came from chickens, cows or potatoes. Mae brought in some cabbages and we used our senses to observe and learn about the cabbages. We drew pictures of our favorite or most interesting cabbage. Mae is going to hang our pictures up in the cafeteria. Next week the whole school will taste test a cabbage recipe. Cabbage is the food of the month. Thank you Mae.
Kindergartner's enjoyed their extended explore time today. They worked and played together, problem solving and creating. Playdough, blocks, legos, police and fire station, and sand table were some of the areas and activities they engaged in.
Kindergarten scholars enjoyed their snow play day and time with their fourth grade buddies.
In the morning kindergartners played on the hill and in the field between RES and CHMS.
During snow play time we used spray bottles filled with colored water to color the snow. We built with snow block makers and went sledding on the hill. We were very happy that the weather cooperated. What fun!
In the afternoon our class met with our fourth grade buddies. Together students designed and began the building of large snowmen the size of kindergarten students. Fourth graders carefully measured their kinderbuddies in order to create snowmen that were the correct size. Buddy teams looked at books about snowmen and decided on materials they might use to dress and decorate their own snowmen. We are looking forward to getting together with fourth graders again next week to finish this cooperative project.
Our class is having a classroom Valentine's Day exchange on Friday, February 12.
We are requesting a few valentine's treats. Here is the sign up genius link if you are
able to donate a food item. Thank you.
