After a few weeks pause, we were able to present our in person town hall this past Friday! The students all were so conscientious communicators and knowledgeable. I was so proud of them!
Working on our auction piece!
For Genius Hour we are working on our auction piece for the Fundraiser Gala. We are adding trees, turtles, fish, and fireflies to our enchanted forest. They have done an amazing job so far!
Buddy time!
Today brought an impromptu, totally child-led and organized game time at indoor morning recess. It was so fun to watch!
March Fun!
We have finished our third Unit of Inquiry on sound and musical instruments and are now starting with an Inquiry into animals and habitats. Our Instruments look great and we are looking forward to showing them off at our Townhall Meeting this Friday! We've been working hard on playing addition and subtraction games in math, …
Be on the lookout!
Hi families! You might see some cool notes coming home this week and next. A student shared a pack of fun postcards with our class, and we decided that more fun notes home would be a good way to use them. I picked up some fun stamps, and when we catch a student being an …
President’s Day Week
Hi families! The IT man came and checked out my laptop and things should be working better than they have all year now. I'm hoping this means our posts go through the first time instead of hanging out in drafts 🤞 This week we have done a close read of Where the Wild Things Are, …
2nd week of February
We had a great week learning about the teen numbers more in depth, finishing Jan Brett with Berlioz the Bear, reviewing the h digraphs and starting to look at the digraph -ck and when we see that at the end of words. We followed our February wonders and made playdough together, had two guest visitors, …
So much happening in February so far!
Sound, Groundhog's Day, 100th Day, Jan Brett actor study, a sweet class visitor.... whew! Looking back at the last five days, we came to school and learned a ton. This is the time of year when everything really starts to come together and we move into some deeper inquiry and applied learning using our new …
100th Day!!
We are now 100 experts that know the pattern of numbers to 100, can count by 1s, 5s, and 10s to 100, can write numbers to 100, and can use the number counting patterns to apply to problems (like counting and building a 100 piece chain - how can you check quickly to know you …
Third Full Week of January
We had a surprising short week with snow storms, but had a great week with our field trip, exploring the loudest and quietest places in school using a decibel meter, talked about high and low pitches, wrote about our snow days, and continued our work with the h digraphs: ch, sh, wh, ph, th. Our …
Mrs. Nugent's Kindergarten Neighborhood 