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Allison Hart
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Teri Gardner
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The Kindergartners at Green Woods have a full and exciting year ahead of them. Each day will be full of opportunities for our beginning readers and writers to stretch and expand their budding literacy skills. Kindergartners at Green Woods are read to multiple times each day, as well as given many opportunities to browse and interact with books independently.
Many of the books that the students are exposed to directly connect to the environmental themes that they will be exploring. The year begins with a unit on geography, where the Kindergartners are introduced to maps and begin to learn the trails of the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. After learning to follow maps and read trail signs, the students move into a study of our local stream, Smith’s Run, putting on boots to wade in the water and examine macroinvertebrates and aquatic plants. The stream study is followed by an investigation of the forest just in time to watch the leaves turn from green to brilliant shades of yellow, orange and red before they become “leaf litter” on the forest floor. We move into a unit on agriculture follows, complete with a search for the remnants of the old Brollo farm right here on the Schuylkill Center’s campus. This leads us into a study of the field, where the students will research Pennsylvania’s burrowing animals, as well as the many insects that reside on our campus. The Kindergarten year ends with a “dip in the pond”, giving the students a taste of what they will focus on in First Grade.
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Kindergarten at Green Woods will begin by getting to know our new classmates, and getting used to being in a new school! Lots of time will be spent building, painting, playing and reading. We will learn about each area of our classroom, and discover some of the fun things that happen in Kindergarten. In the first few weeks of school, we will meet each of our teachers for SCEE, Music, Art, and Technology.
We will spend September developing classroom routines, participating in daily Morning Meetings, Read Alouds, Snack, Recess, and Quiet Reading times. To help the students get used to their new surroundings, the kindergartners will be engaged in a unit on geography, studying the trails and land features here at the Schuylkill Center. We will practice using maps, hike with buddies, and read trail markers. September is sure to be lots of fun!
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