Kindergarten

A Summer Walk On Our Nature Trail

by Steve 06.17.2011 Camp

What would summer camp be without a chance to be outside running, playing, and exploring? The wildflowers are just starting to bloom, and the weather these past few days has been beautiful! After lunch our kindergarten campers went looking for lions, tigers, and bears, oh my!

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Miss Krista’s Kindergarten Newsletter: May 17, 2011

by Krista 05.18.2011 Curriculum

The end of the school year is quickly approaching. Although summer is very near, we have a lot of exciting things still in store for our kindergartners. We finished learning about chicks and eggs last week. We had an exciting unit learning about oviparous animals. We even had 5 chicks

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Motion and Op-Art in Our Kindergarten Class

by Steve 04.12.2011 Art

Head over to our Digital Discovery Center website and check out Mr. Jeff’s latest Kindergarten Art project. Ms. Krista’s Kindergarten class has recently been working on a unit exploring motion. Last Friday, we celebrated the art of Victor Vasarely and one of his contemporaries, Marcel Duchamp. We explored how we could create art that “moved”. [...]

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Miss Krista’s Kindergarten Newsletter: April 11, 2011

by Krista 04.12.2011 Curriculum

The past few weeks have been very busy in the kindergarten classroom. We began an author study of Mo Willems. This author has written books such as “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus,” “Knuffle Bunny,” and the Elephant and Piggie series. The children have really enjoyed incorporating Mo Willems books into all areas of [...]

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Miss Krista’s Kindergarten Newsletter: March 14, 2011

by Krista 03.14.2011 Curriculum

Our theme on Community Helpers has been very exciting! The children have worked very hard to create a city in the construction learning center. We began the project a few weeks ago by listing all the buildings that a city would need. As each day passed by, students selected another building to begin construction on. [...]

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Krista’s Kn Newsletter: March 1, 2011

by Krista 03.02.2011 Curriculum

DR. SEUSS THEME: We concluded our three week long study of Dr. Seuss this week. The children developed a stronger sense of rhyming words and phonemic awareness during this study. We played several sentence building games as well as grouping words according to word families. We ended the unit with a read aloud of

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Miss Krista’s Kindergarten Newsletter: February 14, 2011

by Krista 02.14.2011 Curriculum

DR. SEUSS THEME! This week we kicked off our author study of the remarkable Dr. Seuss. We have been keeping track of the Seuss books we have read in class by adding to a list displayed in the hallway. The students love having the opportunity to write the book titles on the list. We began [...]

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Jackson Pollock inspires Pembroke Kids’ Kindergarten Art Class

by Jeff 02.05.2011 Curriculum

Ms. Krista’s Kindergarten class met last Friday to create their own Jackson Pollock inspired work. Using cotton duck canvas, sand, acrylic paint, brushes, sticks, combs, a flyswatter, ice cream scoop, and even a feather, the kids created their own masterpiece! The new painting on canvas is proudly displayed in the hallway outside of the Wiggle [...]

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