SAVE THE DATE....

You are invited to a Thanksgiving celebration...

When: Monday, November 22, 2010 at 2:15 p.m.

Where: Kindergarten classroom

More details to follow...

Learning at the grocery store

                                                    

     The children are having fun playing in our "grocery store".  They are making shopping lists and cutting coupons to redeem as they checkout.  We have 2 cash registers and 2 shopping carts on loan.  Some food items and play money have been sent in.  Thank you to those families. If you could send in food items (only cans and boxes please, e.g. brownie mix, macaroni and cheese, etc.) for our store, the children will enjoy playing throughout the month and then we will send all donations to a local food pantry before the Thanksgiving break.

Molecules, penguins, volcanoes....

We had another fantastic science class with Kristin, a.k.a. Science Mom.  This week she did an awesome experiment on equilibrium (great words for "E" week).  She explained how molecules "huddle together like penguins" when they are cold and how they "separate or stretch apart when they are hot like an erupting volcano".  She then demonstrated how heat rises by using different colored solutions.  The red water was hot.  The blue was cold.  By filling these containers to the very top and then inverting bottles with yellow water on the top of each one (quite a feat!), we saw the red water (HOT) move rather quickly up into the yellow turning it orange.  The blue (COLD) took a little more time to move up into the yellow but it eventually did turn the yellow water green.  How lucky are we to have such great learning adventures in science?  Thank you Kristin!

Congratulations to Elana's family!

Welcome to your new baby girl!  We are so happy for you all.  Elana is so proud to be a big sister again!!

"Down the street the firefighters go..."

The Kindergarten class visited the Rochambeau fire station yesterday.  It was a great day!  We would like to thank our Moms and Grandmoms who helped us walk there safely.   Also, we will send along a big thank you to the firefighters who made our field trip so much fun! 

Tree of Seasons

The Kindergarten class has adopted a tree in the upper playground.  We will observe this tree throughout the school year and make a pictorial journal.  We have already sketched it twice and have seen some significant changes!  Isn't our tree beautiful?

Solid, liquid, gas?

We had a special visitor in Kindergarten yesterday... Science Mom!!  Kristin Rosler, Zosia's mom, will be joining our class on Thursdays to enhance our science curriculum.  Wearing a shirt with the periodic table imprinted on it, Kristin proceeded to explain how 114 elements show up in one of three forms in the world around us.  We experimented with gases yesterday.  We watched as a balloon filled up with gas after dropping an antacid tablet into a bottle of water.  The kids were more than excited... I think I heard them chanting "We love science, we love science..."  Thank you, Kristin.