St. Francis of Assisi School has now enjoyed 19 days of learning and exploring as a school community. Check out the journey our kindergarten room and students have been on since before the first day to the present.
This was the look of the classroom before work began…an empty slate!
Learning is a carnival, isn’t it? Numbers are learned with popcorn and colors are mastered with cotton candy.
Soon the classroom looked like it was ready. Now it really needs some smiling students!
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- Library and work tables…ready!
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- Stuffed animals and angels…ready!
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- A herd of minions…ready!
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- Nice sharp pencils…ready!
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- Games, puzzles, books…ready!
The bells ring, the school days begin! We are glad to have Brother Patrick join us as our Art Teacher.
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- Brother Patrick helps us to explore art skills.
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- We love Brother Patrick’s projects!
Along with art and reading and math and writing and of course, religion classes, we also study science. We begin by exploring how we can use our senses to learn about our world. Popcorn is the perfect snack to employ use of all the senses. First, we examine a popcorn seed. Expressions on faces reveal that the children weren’t quite sure what this was.
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- What is this little hard thing?
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- I’m using my eyes to see and my fingers to touch.
As the popcorn popper heats up, little faces are full of anticipation.
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- Round and round go the seeds.
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- Hmmm…looks like it’s smoking!
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- Nothing going on yet.
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- This is a lot of waiting!
And then…sight, sound and smell all at once. It’s amazing!
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- Hurray!
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- This is outstanding!
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- Can you believe this?
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- At last!
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- This looks promising!
Of course, the best sense to use was the sense of taste. What could be better?
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- This is serious business.
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- One should be dainty in eating popcorn.
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- Some of us study each kernel and some of us just pop it in!
Kindergarten has had many adventures so far and we anticipate many, many more. We’ll keep you posted!