Our Trip to the Post Office

We had a beautiful day for our walk to the West Brattleboro post office. Along the way, we saw the fire station, the Whetstone Brook and lots of big trucks! At the post office, we bought stamps to mail our letters. (The stamps had pictures from a book we have read with Mr. Paciulli called The Snowy Day!) Holly, the postal clerk, let us see where our letters went after we put them in the mail slot and everyone got to cancel a stamp.  I hope you've all received your letters by now!

It's Sugaring Time!

Mr. Pancake, father of our ESOL teacher Heidi Pancake, came and tapped the sugar maple tree in the courtyard.  The kindergartners have had a chance to taste the sap and are working to collect enough sap to boil into maple syrup!

Secret Reader

Do you know someone who loves coffee, audiobooks and almost all insects (except cockroaches)??  We do!  Leander's mom, Fronsy!  She was our first secret reader of the year!  The kindergartners enjoyed using the clues to try and guess who was coming to read to us.  Secret readers make reading even more fun!

Forest Tuesdays and Fridays

Building

Helping

Digging

Pride

Friendship

Persevering

Teamwork

Exploring

Beauty

Animals in Winter

We have been studying animals in winter.  Through this unit, the kindergartners have been learning about the difference between living and non-living, what plants and animals need to survive (such as food and water), the relationship between the needs of different animals and the places they live (some animals migrate to a warmer place where they can find food), and how they can change the environment to meet their needs (such as storing food for the winter.) 

This unit combined both science and writing standards. Each child chose an animal that lives in Vermont and wrote an informative piece of writing about their animal. Please stop by and read the kindergartner's animals clues hanging on the bulletin board outside our classroom.

Here are the kindergartners "migrating" to a warmer place in the library where they found their snack food. 

Here are the kindergartners "hibernating" like bats.

Joan Carey, from Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center, taught us about animals tracks and about how beavers change their environment by building dams to meet their needs for food and a safe home.

Fun in the snow on Forest Friday