Busy never Boring

A day in the life of a Room 101 kindergartner is certainly busy and never boring!  Today, a typically bustling day included much.  We had Mr. Callahan in top help us wrap up our art unit by teaching us one way we could create a self portrait on the ipad.   Nicholas and Matthew's mom helped us work on a direction following activity, and Ms. P came to bring us new animals!  We now have a corn snake and a crayfish visiting our room.

In addition to that we had reading groups with Mrs. Parnell and writing with Mrs.  Hoyt.  We are caring for our plants and exploring 3 dimensional shapes!  We are busy!

Beatrix Potter's Nursery

Room 101 opened Beatrix Potter's Nursery today!

During the coming weeks we will be revisiting the animal families we learned about in the fall. Like Beatrix Potter who had various animals in her nursery, we will be looking at, painting and writing about the creatures that come to see us.

Ms. P from the science center will be bringing us various animals.  Today she arrived with Rosie and some cockroaches.  In the coming weeks we will have toads, turtles, frogs and perhaps even some birds and a bunny in to visit us.

Rosie is an arachnid!

The cockroaches are in the insect family.

Eggstra Fun Day

Room 101 had an eggstra fun afternoon.  We worked on our balance this afternoon and enjoyed the wonderful weather.  We had to carry some plastic eggs with a spoon.  We were challenged to carry the eggs a certain distance without letting the eggs fall. 

It was tricky!  For some of us, we had to learn to move slowly and under control.  It was an exercise in patience!.............and it was lots of fun!

100th Day!

Kindergartners in room 101 celebrated the 100th day of school today!  It was very exciting. We scribbled for 100 seconds, wore our 100th day crowns,  made 100 finger prints and strung our 100 bead necklaces.  In addition each student shared 100 small items when they brought in their 100th day collections. Each was asked to double check and make sure the collection actually had 100 pieces in it.  We did a lot of counting!

We are 100 days into the school year, past the midpoint.  Mrs. Parnell and Mrs. Hoyt look forward  beginning work on our Leprechaun book and our Numba Rumba book.  We have so much more learning to do!

We loved our Valentine's Day

We in Room 101 had a lovely Valentine's Day and hope you did too!  Our celebration included a wide variety of fun activities.  Secret Valentine gifts were exchanged, we emptied our mailboxes and collected our treasures, enjoyed a lovely Victorian Luncheon catered by the Pine Glen Cafeteria, played  find the thimble, did a math exercise comparing odd and even numbers, read a few Valentine stories and watched a Victorian era American Girl movie.

Next on our agenda are final preparations for our 100th day celebration after the vacation week.

!Weather Alert! - What happens tomorrow?

Dr. Conti, Burlington's Superintendent of schools announce to staff that we will plan for an early dismissal tomorrow, Friday, February 8.  Parents should be receiving a connect ed call from Dr. Conti either tonight or tomorrow morning.

As of this notice being published the plan is to have students at school for morning activities and lunch.  Dismissal is scheduled for 11:15. All kindergartners will be sent home on the neighborhood buses with the students in grades 1-5.

Note:  There is a chance the entire day will be cancelled.  Decision depends upon updated weather reports and whether the Governor declares a state of emergency.

Please speak to your children so they are aware how they will be going home tomorrow.

Thank you,

Melissa and Karen

Fish

We spent the month of January exploring fish and creatures the live in the sea.  Our studies were topped off with special presentations today and last Friday.

We had a visit from the New England Aquarium last week.  Presenter, Sam, shared some of the creatures we might find if we visited a tide pool at a beach.  We learned about and touched crabs, sea stars, horseshoe crabs, mussels, clams and oysters of the bi-valve family and snails. Before we touched the animals, we need to put on our imagination hats and get to the beach!

The water was cold, but the touching was COOL!

Today, Mr. Musselman of the Burlington Science Center shared the presentation, "Super Fish".  He spoke about penguins, bi-valves, exoskeleton tide pool animals, fish and even brought an invertebrate (octopus)!  He talked about the various parts We were given the opportunity to touch and feel the octopus.