A lot in 4 days!

Prin, Prin, Principled

I am Principled.

I always like to do the right thing.

I am Principled!

How is it a 4 day week often feels busier than a 5 day? That is certainly an inquiry worth exploring!  Our kindergarteners were busier than ever.  A few things we worked on were our Unit of Inquiry, our Learner Profile Principled, counting to 100 and forming the tricky number 2, measuring our bodies and reporting our findings, the letters M, T, R, and S, tackled the new sight words (can, me, I and red) and introduced our daily journal.  Whew!

Our Unit of Inquiry continued to investigate our personal uniqueness and how special we all are.  We also took a look at the world and imagined if everything was exactly the same and what that would be like.  Appreciating the uniqueness in the world helps us see how special our planet is and everything it holds. 

In this project, we decorated a poster board with no directions (always fun!).  Then we began wondering how this decorated poster board is like the earth.  We will add to this special wonder board in the days to come but here are some of our responses:

1.   The hearts are like being caring.

2.  It looks like the rainbow here on earth.

3.  People are doing things.

4.  There are different colors.

Making these connections are an integral part of our learning!

Another connection we made is how we are growing just like other things on the earth.  We really enjoyed looking at our baby pictures and seeing how big we are now.  One child asked, “How did that even happen?”  So cute, such wonder!

We want to send a BIG thank you out to all our caring Explorers for helping us feel so appreciated for the Chinese Teacher Appreciation Day.  They learned all about this special holiday in Mandarin class and created beautiful flowers for each teacher in the school.  Thank you!

Reminders:

1-Grandparents Day celebration on Monday (2:00-3:00).

2-No school for kindergarten on Friday.