A Big Update!

My apologize for the extreme lack of updates. After a week of being quite sick and having lots of visitors, we are back to our regular routines and procedures. As a result of that (and, of course, my camera finally biting the dust), we are ready to head back into this blog!

So as for some classroom updates....

In science we have been doing colour mixing experiments! Last week we experiemented with what happens if we put two coloured waters in seperate cups and use a paper towel to link them to a middle cup. It looked a little like this...

We did yellow in one cup and red in the other... and it made orange!

We took guesses and drew pictures about what we thought might happen and a few friends were right! The colours mixed together and out popped orange.

This week in science we are doing new colour mixing activities. Today Mrs. Saini helped friends to dye pasta. We had to make the colours using primary coloured food dye and tomorrow we will be able to bead with them. At the art easel we used primary colours to create all the colours an artist could need by mixing them just right.


Our newest inquiry has become seasonal holidays. This week we are learning a driedel song and all about Hanukkah. We have read a book and we are learning important vocabulary, such as "menorah" and "driedal". Next week we are all very excited to play a driedel game with pennies and real driedels!




Here, in kindergarten, we know that parents sometimes ask for ideas of what to do over those long (rainy?!) days. Check back Friday night for a post with several ideas of what to do at home with your child.