Our Trip to Green Mountain Orchard

Smile and say, "Apple!"

                                          

 Hayride fun through the orchard!

We made our own cider for snack!

 Snack time..... cider apples and cider pressed by the kindergartners...YUM!

 We picked apples and blueberries!

We had a great trip to the orchard!

Our Trip to Lilac Ridge Farm

Eating a Rainbow!!

As part of our study about how to keep our bodies healthy, Vicky Senni from the Brattleboro Food Coop came and talked to the kindergartners about "eating a rainbow."

The kindergartners sorted foods into the different colors of the rainbow.

The kindergartners tried different colors of the rainbow such as green cucumbers, yellow pineapples and orange orange slices.

We really liked the red beets!

Ellen's Kindergarten Connection April 4, 2014

Important Dates and Reminders

April 14 - 18 – NO SCHOOL Spring Recess

May 26 – NO SCHOOL Memorial Day

Contact me if you’re available to be a secret reader!  I hope each kindergartner will have a secret reader before the end of the school year.  Thanks!

Maple Sugaring Study

To celebrate our study of how maple syrup is made, the kindergartners enjoyed a pancake snack.  Thank you to Lynn Pancake for donating his homemade syrup!

Conferences

It was so nice to meet with you at parent-teacher conferences!  I am so proud of the progress all of the kindergartners have made so far this year!! Thank you so much for your support and work with your children at home.  We couldn’t do it without you!

OUR 5 SENSES

 We have been studying our five senses through various hands-on experiments such as guessing what’s inside the touchy-feely box by just using the sense of touch and by reading non-fiction books.  Ask your child what his/her 5 senses are.  Next we will begin our study of the human body.

 

100 days of fun and learning!

Our Trip to the Post Office

A snowy walk to the post office to mail our valentines!

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We put our valentines in the "local" mail slot and then we saw where they went!

The kindergartners cancelled the stamps on the envelopes.

Kindergarten Science: Pushes and Pulls

As part of our science study on Force and Motion, we worked on using appropriate language to describe motion, compare motion, and we began to develop an understanding of forces and their relationship to changes in motion. The kindergartners were introduced to the concept that objects fall toward the Earth and that the force that pulls objects toward the Earth affects the motion of all objects.

The kindergartners observed gravity at work by releasing their cars on the top of the ramp and watching the cars roll toward Earth without a push or pull.