The Penguin Class January 31, 2016 What`s happening in our class?

The Penguin Class
January 31, 2016
What’s happening in our
class?
We are off to a wonderful start
this year! January has been a busy
month in our little classroom!
The children have been learning
about animals in the Winter. We
have looked at animals that
hibernate and migrate.
The children discovered ice on the
playground the day after we
experienced freezing
temperatures, which sparked an
interest in learning how ice and
snowflakes are made!
The children practiced cutting
coffee filters, creating their own
unique snowflakes!
We read The Mitten by Jan Brett
and as a work, the children enjoyed
putting the animals in sequential
order in the snow white mitten.
We discussed measurement and
asked, “What does it mean to
measure something?” The children
measured one another with felt
mittens! We recorded how many
mittens tall they each were on a
giant mitten outside our classroom
door. We hope you get a chance to
check it out!
One day, guests from the dentist
came to teach about dental hygiene.
They even talked about what foods
are healthy/unhealthy for our
teeth. The children loved it! They
asked great questions and even got
to take home a new toothbrush!
A special thank you to Blythe
Bennett for reading with our
Kindergarten students every
Thursday morning!
January has been a whirlwind of
fun! We are so excited to begin a
Penguin Unit in February, as well as,
celebrate Valentine’s Day and the
Chinese New Year!
In peace,
Meghan Sellers
Busy at Work!
*We want to welcome Ella
Linquist and Lucas Lassiter
to our Penguin Class family!
“The first essential for
the child’s development
is concentration.”
-Dr. Maria Montessori
In Geography, our Kindergarten role
models have been map making! This is
BIG work! The children use the
continent puzzle maps and trace each
piece on construction paper. Then
they cut them out and glue them on
poster board in the shape of the
continent. So far, the United States
has been the most popular map to
make!
We love to cook in our classroom
when we get the chance! The children
had the fabulous idea to bake
muffins and deliver them to their
friends in the other two classes! We
made blueberry muffins and gave
them to the other classes for snack.
We even had enough left over for our
classroom to enjoy too! It was so
sweet and it was a great lesson on
showing kindness. :)