Welcome Back!

We hope that everyone had a fun, relaxing Winter Break. We have enjoyed listening to the many adventures your kindergarteners experienced with their families.

Penguins at the Zoo

Kindergarteners enjoyed a trip to Riverbanks Zoo this week. They participated in the program P is for Penguin and experienced the daily feeding of the penguins. The program invited all children to measure themselves next to an Emperor Penguin, challenged them to see if they could jump as far as a Rockhopper Penguin and encouraged them to feel what real penguin feathers feel like.
During the feeding time kindergarteners learned more facts about the individual penguins that live at the zoo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sensational Science

As we wrapped up our study of the polar regions, each of the kindergarten classes participated in a "blubber" experiment. We felt ice cold water with our human hands ---BRRRR...
Then we wore a glove of blubber to note the difference in the way our hand felt in the same frigid water. Ask your child what they discovered.

 

Focus On India

This week, we are excited about exploring our country of study, India. The Lower School is being transformed into this beautiful country. Our Country Day of Study will be celebrated this Friday, February 26th. The kiva will be busy helping with this day.

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT EACH STUDENT NEEDS TO BRING A COMPLETE LUNCH FROM HOME WITH NO HEATUPS.

Thanks for your help with this!

Word Study February 23rd - March 1st

We will review all sight words studied so far. Kindergarteners are getting really good at reading the words off of the blue and purple cards. Now that they can recall these words, we encourage you to practice reading them on different types of media (i.e. magazines, newspapers) and in different fonts. We also suggest reinforcement in writing them in complete sentences. Complete sentence writing can be a challenge so start with simple sentences then add detail and describing words.