What has been happening in our Space?
We have been tilling the soil and cultivating an environment that will lay the foundation for a lifetime of learning, exploring, and community.
Our Kindergartners met with Farmer Yolie to plant eggplant and pepper seeds. But first, Farmer Yolie taught us about what grows in the summer. We looked at some seeds that may just look like sleepy dry seeds, but will actually become alive and active with the right ingredients and care.
Year of the Rat 2020
Brandee (Elliot’s Mom) visited our classroom and joined us in our Winter celebrations around the world. She talked to us about some of the traditional customs and food people in China do to celebrate the New Year. We all received a red envelope with special tokens inside of it for us to keep for good luck, like Chinese children receive on this very special day. We ate sweet mandarins and made a cute rat hat craft. It was so much fun to learn about other ways children and their families celebrate holidays in other countries.
We have also blasted into outer space, learning the names and order of the planets and explored them in a variety of hands on ways. Some of the activities we did included games, experiments with magnets, spheres, and ice. We also used materials in the class to help visualize the size and distance of a planet from the sun.
A favorite fact we learned…Saturn is so GIANT that 95 planet earths could fit inside of Saturn and it would float if it landed on an ocean! Children built a large sphere out of play dough representing Saturn and pulled apart smaller balls from it to form 95 “Earths” out of it.
Mark your calendars
Thursday, February 13th Parent Child Night: last name A-M 4:15-5:00, N-Z 5:00-5:45
Monday, February 17th Presidents’ Day: NO SCHOOL
Friday, February 21st Discovery Museum Field Trip. Please have your child wear their red, FMS Montessori shirt.
We will have a sign-up sheet available at the end of next week for approximately 10 parent volunteers who would like to chaperone the field trip to Discovery Museum. If you’re not able to join us this time, there are more classroom volunteer opportunities and another field trip to look forward to in March.
Thank You!
