February

Each Friday afternoon, the kindergarten children join the first grade class for buddy reading. During this special time, each child selects a book to read with his or her reading buddy. The children rotate "buddies" each week in order to have an opportunity to work with every student. After reading together, each child selects one of the books about which to write a book review. The students identify the title, author, characters and setting of the book he/she choose. The two classes have really bonded during this shared time in which they have the opportunity to work with their peers to improve their skills. 

We are nearing our 100th day of school together, and what better way to prepare, than to play a fun game of number bingo! The bingo boards have numbers from 1 to 100 and playing together provides the children with an opportunity to read and recognize these numbers.

We love to share our birthday with our classmates! Our birthday is the perfect time to reflect on how we can affect the world in our own unique way! It's a natural opportunity to evaluate, "How can I bring goodness to the world?" Our birthday girl selected a book to share with us to help us get to thinking about just this....Miss Rumpius by Barbara Cooney. This book left as pondering, "How can I make the world more beautiful?" We talked about making the world more physically beautiful, by planting flowers and trees. But certainly, our world is filled with the beauty of our acts of kindness too. It is our responsibility to use our unique talents to bring goodness to the world.

We shared the beauty and bounty of our world at this birthday celebration by making some delicious fruit kabobs!