Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a blessed Christmas break!

New Year's Fireworks!

We had a fun week learning with our friends again...

Learning balance
   

 

           Making action patterns with friends

Making selfies - we worked extra hard on detail - SA
has a mirror so that she could check the color of her eyes.

We also celebrated some accomplished WIGs (Wildly Important Goals)! HA and HO learned letter names, LA and ET worked on number recognition, and GR learned his letter sounds

    

Two special things from this week:

1. Show and Tell

Show and Tell is not only valuable for community
building, but also for oral communication. Students
have the opportunity to explain and answer questions from
other students.

2. Our introduction of our new project - we are getting a pet! A guinea pig to be specific. This project will have two parts. The first, that we have begun, is based on this driving question: How can we as Kindergarten pet owners create a happy and healthy home for our guinea pig? Part B will be based around good pets vs. bad pets and how we can people make good pet choices. 

First, we began on Wednesday with a clue search to find out what the surprise was!

From there, we looked at books and videos to find out what all living things need to live and how we can supply those for our pet. Having this pet will provide new opportunities for student responsibility and leadership, and will provide new opportunities for reading, writing, and math learnings.

Looking forward to more learning adventures next week!

Highlights from the students: playing outside in the snow, seeing our friends again, making our selfies, show and tell, hot dog lunch, and of course, the guinea pig project.