Overheard in Class
"Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
"The chicken came from the egg."
"But what about the egg, where did it come from?"
"From the chicken, of course!"
"But where did that chicken come from?"
"What do you mean? Hmmm. I don't really know."
"The egg was a space creature thingy mabob and came on the ground and became a chicken!"
"Really?"
"Yup!"
It's been a very busy week in the Kindergarten, highlighted by having two guests work with our class. We have had the pleasure of working with artist Julia Zanes to design and create one dimensional puppets based on our current study of seeds, worms and bees. Students worked together to script a story for a puppet play. This will be performed at all-school meeting next Wednesday, May 18, at 2:10 p.m.
The class also enjoyed some time this week planting a variety of fast-growing seeds. Emily Weinberg, Phoebe's mom, generously came in and did a seed-planting activity, helping us to plant marigolds and pumpkins. We hope to put the pumpkin seedlings into the Grammar School garden after they have sprouted. In addition, we planted our Root View garden with carrots, onions and radishes and have already seen root development. Thank you to Emily for coming in.
This week we have also begun our study of sheep and wool and the process of making yarn from raw wool. I am hoping to have our field trip to the Green Mountain Spinnery scheduled soon. Students have been making story boards of different life cycles - plants, animals and even people. In addition, they are experimenting with writing books and poems. We have also been very involved in making observational drawings of items in our nature center.
Next week I will send out the food assignments for our Spofford trip. Please let me know if for any reason you are unable to bring the item assigned and we'll work out an alternative.
Please call if you have any questions or concerns.
