As I was preparing lessons for the week coming up after break, I realized I hadn't posted any of the fantastic photos of our activities and fun we had on the 100th Day of School and Valentine's Day. Enjoy!
Sunday, February 23, 2020
100th Day and Valentine's Day in Kindergarten
Hello Families,
As I was preparing lessons for the week coming up after break, I realized I hadn't posted any of the fantastic photos of our activities and fun we had on the 100th Day of School and Valentine's Day. Enjoy!
As I was preparing lessons for the week coming up after break, I realized I hadn't posted any of the fantastic photos of our activities and fun we had on the 100th Day of School and Valentine's Day. Enjoy!
Sunday, February 2, 2020
Happy February
Happy February!
I have lots of pictures to share of the children enjoying building and playing together, Crazy Hair and Hat Day, a melting snowman writing project and more....
We will have an Early Release Day on Wednesday this week, February 5th. Please remember if your child has different after school plans that day to send a note. Also, there are 2 special days coming up in Kindergarten. Tuesday, February 11th will be the 100th Day of School and we will celebrate Valentine's Day on February 14th. I will be sending home a newsletter early this week to share details about those exciting days. Then we have a week off from school February 17-21.
We are diving into our next unit, Who We Are. "Community" has been our focus to start us off. We are investigating the many different kinds of communities that we belong to and we will be connecting that to discovering our inner traits and values. There will be a new Mystery Bag focus coming up to fit into this unit, as well as a fun project about each student's name. Here's to a new month of learning and exploring together.
I have lots of pictures to share of the children enjoying building and playing together, Crazy Hair and Hat Day, a melting snowman writing project and more....
We will have an Early Release Day on Wednesday this week, February 5th. Please remember if your child has different after school plans that day to send a note. Also, there are 2 special days coming up in Kindergarten. Tuesday, February 11th will be the 100th Day of School and we will celebrate Valentine's Day on February 14th. I will be sending home a newsletter early this week to share details about those exciting days. Then we have a week off from school February 17-21.
We are diving into our next unit, Who We Are. "Community" has been our focus to start us off. We are investigating the many different kinds of communities that we belong to and we will be connecting that to discovering our inner traits and values. There will be a new Mystery Bag focus coming up to fit into this unit, as well as a fun project about each student's name. Here's to a new month of learning and exploring together.
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Hello Families,
Here are some pics from our busy classroom and a visit from the local poet, Ted Scheu. The students loved his humor and the poems that he read to them. They sang with him, showed off their rhyming skills and wrote a poem with him, too! There are photos of the children working on their reading strategies and building and game playing at Math Workplaces.
Here are some pics from our busy classroom and a visit from the local poet, Ted Scheu. The students loved his humor and the poems that he read to them. They sang with him, showed off their rhyming skills and wrote a poem with him, too! There are photos of the children working on their reading strategies and building and game playing at Math Workplaces.
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
The Heath Quartet
Hello!
Our class had the opportunity to walk to Middlebury College today and listen to the Heath Quartet play music for us. Yesterday, we prepared for our visit by watching video of them playing music on their website. Not only did they play wonderful music on their violins, viola and cello, they also talked to us about the instruments and the music they were playing. It was very interesting and lovely and the Kindergartners were a fabulous audience. In the afternoon, the students drew and wrote about the experience. We were so surprised to hear that one of the violins that was being played was 280 years old!
Our class had the opportunity to walk to Middlebury College today and listen to the Heath Quartet play music for us. Yesterday, we prepared for our visit by watching video of them playing music on their website. Not only did they play wonderful music on their violins, viola and cello, they also talked to us about the instruments and the music they were playing. It was very interesting and lovely and the Kindergartners were a fabulous audience. In the afternoon, the students drew and wrote about the experience. We were so surprised to hear that one of the violins that was being played was 280 years old!
Saturday, January 4, 2020
Happy New Year
Hello Families,
Kindergarten is off and running in the New Year! Our classroom was a happy place as we reconnected this week after a long break. One of our classmates moved to another school, so the children thought it would be a good idea to draw him some pictures and write him a letter. We will be focused on the learner profile trait of COMMUNICATOR this month. The Kindergarten is in charge of presenting at the whole school meeting on January 9th where we will talk about being a communicator and share some recent learning and a few songs with the school.
Some dates to put on your calendar: No school on January 20 and 21. Looking ahead to February, we have an early release day on the 5th and no school the week of Feb. 17-21.
Whether it's building together at choice time, playing a math game together or working on projects at the table, the children are communicating and sharing ideas every day in Kindergarten.
Kindergarten is off and running in the New Year! Our classroom was a happy place as we reconnected this week after a long break. One of our classmates moved to another school, so the children thought it would be a good idea to draw him some pictures and write him a letter. We will be focused on the learner profile trait of COMMUNICATOR this month. The Kindergarten is in charge of presenting at the whole school meeting on January 9th where we will talk about being a communicator and share some recent learning and a few songs with the school.
Some dates to put on your calendar: No school on January 20 and 21. Looking ahead to February, we have an early release day on the 5th and no school the week of Feb. 17-21.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Woods Exploring
Hello Families,
On Monday we took a short walking trip into the woods right behind school to look for ways that the woods environment had changed from October. We were lucky to still have snow on the ground at that point and found tracks right away. Then we were very lucky to discover that beavers had been busy in the stream and on land in the woods. We investigated a tree that had been chewed on, a beginning of a lodge being built and spots where the beavers had climbed out of the stream and moved around on land. We were so excited! Then we went up into the fields and rolled some gigantic snowballs and formed a caterpillar. As we were walking back towards Mary Hogan to get ready for dismissal, a Kindergartner spoke up and said, "Hey Mrs. Schondube, we can change the environment, too, with all our snowballs we made in the field!" Connections are so awesome!
On Monday we took a short walking trip into the woods right behind school to look for ways that the woods environment had changed from October. We were lucky to still have snow on the ground at that point and found tracks right away. Then we were very lucky to discover that beavers had been busy in the stream and on land in the woods. We investigated a tree that had been chewed on, a beginning of a lodge being built and spots where the beavers had climbed out of the stream and moved around on land. We were so excited! Then we went up into the fields and rolled some gigantic snowballs and formed a caterpillar. As we were walking back towards Mary Hogan to get ready for dismissal, a Kindergartner spoke up and said, "Hey Mrs. Schondube, we can change the environment, too, with all our snowballs we made in the field!" Connections are so awesome!
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Welcome December!
Hello Families,
I know that December is going to fly by so I wanted to let you know some important dates coming up for our students. This Thursday the 5th is the Readathon Closing Celebration at 8:45 in the gym. Parents are welcome to join us and the children are invited to wear their Mary Hogan t-shirts. There is an all school meeting on December 12th so students can wear their t-shirts that day, too! Spirit wear...I love it! The Mary Hogan Winter Sing Along is on December 19th at 1:30 in the gym. Parents are welcome to attend this event, as well.
During the next few weeks, we will be finishing up our learning of all the lower case letters of the alphabet and ending our unit, How the World Works. Our focus in this unit has been how living things can change the environment. We just watched a video of a man building a cabin in the woods by himself and discussed what he would need to survive. The Kindergartners asked some thoughtful questions and really showed curiosity about this idea! Next we will be watching a video about beavers and thinking about how they change the environment and why. Finally, the students will work together to brainstorm some ideas about how other living things change their environment. They are being inquirers!
Our December calendar has us thinking about positional words (behind, under, beside, etc) and how to know if a number is a double. Finally, I am going to share a picture of a world map that I posted in the classroom to follow the travels of a Middlebury College student named Thi. She was interested in sharing her story with us as she embarked on a semester at sea. She sent us postcards and we posted red stars on the map to show where she was in the world. The students really enjoyed receiving postcards in the mail! I hope to have Thi come visit our classroom when she returns.
I know that December is going to fly by so I wanted to let you know some important dates coming up for our students. This Thursday the 5th is the Readathon Closing Celebration at 8:45 in the gym. Parents are welcome to join us and the children are invited to wear their Mary Hogan t-shirts. There is an all school meeting on December 12th so students can wear their t-shirts that day, too! Spirit wear...I love it! The Mary Hogan Winter Sing Along is on December 19th at 1:30 in the gym. Parents are welcome to attend this event, as well.
During the next few weeks, we will be finishing up our learning of all the lower case letters of the alphabet and ending our unit, How the World Works. Our focus in this unit has been how living things can change the environment. We just watched a video of a man building a cabin in the woods by himself and discussed what he would need to survive. The Kindergartners asked some thoughtful questions and really showed curiosity about this idea! Next we will be watching a video about beavers and thinking about how they change the environment and why. Finally, the students will work together to brainstorm some ideas about how other living things change their environment. They are being inquirers!
Our December calendar has us thinking about positional words (behind, under, beside, etc) and how to know if a number is a double. Finally, I am going to share a picture of a world map that I posted in the classroom to follow the travels of a Middlebury College student named Thi. She was interested in sharing her story with us as she embarked on a semester at sea. She sent us postcards and we posted red stars on the map to show where she was in the world. The students really enjoyed receiving postcards in the mail! I hope to have Thi come visit our classroom when she returns.
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