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Welcome to Kindergarten!
We are looking forward to getting to know you and your children!
Kindergarten is a year of growing socially, emotionally, physically and intellectually. Your involvement, interest, and enthusiasm will help make this a wonderful year of growth for you and your child.  A child’s first and most important teacher is his or her parents. Communication between parents and teachers is essential. So please do not hesitate to call with any questions or concerns. Take a moment to imagine the Kindergarten world: letters, numbers, stories, sharing blocks, puzzles, play, paint and playdough.  Imagination and creativity are everywhere.  As you talk with your child about their day and celebrate their best effort on the work and play they do, remember that Kindergarten is a “child’s garden”.  Many times the process is more important than the product, and learning is accomplished by doing, touching, and experimenting.
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Our Class Tree
Each year the Kindergarten children choose a tree in neighboring Edgerton Park to observe throughout the year.  We visit “our tree” monthly and make observations in our tree journals.  We watch how it changes throughout the season, make tree and leaf rubbings and make predictions about what it might look like on our next visit.


 
 
“The Mitten”
A Kindergarten tradition takes place at the end of January each year.  The Kindergarten presents “The Mitten” written by Alvin Tresselt and adapted by Jan Brett.  We present the play to the entire school along with the Kindergarten parents.  The Kindergartners bring to life the woodland creatures that inhabit a mitten to get out of the  cold wintry weather.


 

   
 Fourth Grade Readers and Science Times
Every week the Kindergarten has the opportunity to be paired with a 4th grade child.

 
 




Trout in the Classroom Project
This year the kindergartners are participating in an exciting project, "Trout in the Classroom." With some help from a group called Trout Unlimited, we will be raising brown trout for eventual release in the Mill River. We believe that this entire process will help our students feel more connected to the world around them, the natural environment in particular. Though many classrooms, including ours, have pets, not many are given the opportunity to raise and then release wild creatures. Our hope is that this program will make our children more sensitive to how humans both harm and help the world in which we live and will encourage them to help protect the river that will be home to the fish they helped to raise.
 


   
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