New ECO Schedule

Due to our delayed starts last week, the kindergarten team has changed our ECO schedule for the year. Please toss the old schedule. We will be going out this Wednesday with Mrs. Koch’s class. Please let me know if you are available this Wednesday, or for any upcoming ECO days. Thanks! Linda Dostie lindad@mpsvt.org

Reading to End Racism

We had a fabulous guest teacher today as part of the Reading to End Racism program our school takes part in every year. Danielle, a friend of mine and community member, presented a wonderful lesson around the ideas of "same" and "different". She taught us the sign language signs for both words, told a personal story about how she was teased as a child for being different and how that made her feel, and did a puppet show about a ladybug who was teased for being different. After the puppet show the children made a puppet of themselves, and the wise old ladybug who was in our puppet show, told them all how unique and beautiful they were. To learn more about Reading to End Racism, please visit their website at: http://rercentralvt.org/

A Visit From Screech!

To our surprise this morning, we received a special delivery from Screech the owl! Our class has earned 1000 hoots, and Screech personally delivered them to us along with "high fives" for all the kids. What a treat!

What did you do at school today?

I've had several parents mention to me that it's difficult to get their children to open up about what they did at school. I have the same trouble with my own daughter, but have the luxury of knowing what they are doing since she's in my colleague, Mrs. Koch's, kindergarten class. Here are some ideas for things you could ask this month: 1. What happened when you melted the icicles you brought inside? 2. Tell me about weighing things on the scale and finding out if they weighed less or more. 3. Tell me about some of the books Mrs. Dostie read recently (see Shelfari on the blog’s sidebar). 4. What math workplace did you do today? 5. What are you writing about in Writer’s Workshop? 6. What greeting did you do today at Morning Meeting? 7. What do you plan to share on your sharing day? 8. What is your “heart word” this week? 9. Show me the letters you have been practicing lately (v, w, z, q). How do you write them and what sounds do they make? 10. Tell me about “listening to reading”. I hope these sentence starters spark some good conversations!