Lunch with our Buddies

Children looking at a butterfly

We released the first monarch that hatched yesterday and watched it soar up into the air and disappear over the building. The children were pleased to see it take flight.

We had a great discussion in math today. We have begun our second unit of study in
Investigations today on counting and numbers. The children began counting how many days we have been in school this year. Children noticed the weekend days and holidays, as they debated whether every day counted or only some of the days. One child mentioned that we could not count Thursday, because that had not happened [it is tomorrow]. Many children were convinced that since there was no day marked with a number after September 30th, that must mean kindergarten was over and they were going to First Grade. Kindergartners have lots of great ideas to discuss. We read Anno's Counting Book, discussed some of the pictures in the book and began making our own counting books.

The best part of the day was eating lunch with our 6th grade buddies. we found out who our buddy was today and many children seemed to get along well with their buddy. We will meet with them again on Friday and will finalize the pairing of the children. We hope to have pictures to post in a day or two.