Kindergarten @ BPC

Spring greetings!    To kick off spring we have started to explore what kindness looks, sounds, and feels like. We started our journey of kindness by gathering ideas of how to be kind from the kindergartners, and by making a poster to hang in the classroom. A picture of their wonderful ideas is posted below.    We have also begun to "catch" kindness in our classroom. If a student sees or hears a friend being kind, they are invited to write or draw what they witnesses and add it to our kindness catcher. I've included a picture of it below, as well. Some examples are "I saw some one help a friend up when they fell."  or "Some one helped clean up a station they were not working in." At the end of every day Ms. Ronquillo reads the kindnesses from the catcher, and we reflect on the day.    Watching our students participate in acts of kindness, and then celebrate those acts is truly a beautiful and fulfilling event, and we hope that you witness the...

Hello K families, Last Wednesday was our class trip to the Lawrence Hall of Science. We participated in their Motion Commotion workshop, where the kindergartners designed, built, tested and revised structures to accomplish design challenges. You can learn more about this project from the write up we sent home in the kindergartners take home folders this week. We walked the museum after our workshop and participated in exhibits that explored parachute building, rocket construction, how wind farms work and many other valuable and immersive activities. But talk of the trip was, as it is every year, getting to climb on the giant humpback whale in front of the museum! Art In art class we have been making collages with our painted papers for our upcoming art show in the spring. Apparently it was so busy in the studio that there are no pictures of our cutting and gluing sessions. Also, just a reminder to please bring your empty art po...