Kindergarten News - Week of April 13th

 We have had 135 days of school!

Announcements/Reminders:

                                                              

Happy Birthday to Isaiah (April 16th)!! 

• SHOW and TELL on Monday, April 20th: Talia and Isaiah. Please bring one item from home to show to the class.
• FOLDERS: Please check these and remove all papers.
• Bloomz: Please check the Bloomz App for reminders and the latest photos - in the “April 2026” album.

•    Practice at home:

• Black & White reading books: No new books were sent home this week.  If you have one at home, please return it on Wednesday, for a new take home book.
• ​Phonics: Read and Draw Activity
• Math: Combinations to Ten

A Peek At our Week:

Star Student: 

Nylah is our Star Student! She is 6 years old today! Nylah's favorite colors are pink and purple. Her favorite food is pizza. In her free time she likes to play with her sisters and to swim. Her favorite sport is tennis. When Nylah grows up, she wants to be a doctor. 

We had a wonderful Week of the Young Child (WOYC)!  How great is it that every year we can take time out and focus on our youngest learners?

Music Monday​: Mr. Deval Stevens, our GHCDS steel pan​ instructor, visited the

ELC and played steel pan music for the children. Between tunes, children had the opportunity to play a note or two. The children also sang "One Love" with Mr. Deval and all ended by dancing happily to "Baby Shark"! Many thanks to Mr. Deval for sharing his talent with our youngest learners.

Show and Tell: Though Monday turned into a very stormy day which cut our time short, we still managed to get Jaspers show and tell in and then Nylah's later in the week. Jasper brought us his favorite flower - the Spider Lily. He told his classmates how much he liked it and that it's actually very easy to grow. Jasper brought everyone a seed pod so they could try to grow their very own. Later in the week, Nylah finally had a chance to show off her "Skip ball", which she had received for her birthday. Nylah skillfully demonstrated how to use it with skipping and jumping. She then gave her classmates the opportunity to give it a try. They discovered that Nylah made it look much easier than it actually is! Great toy to get exercise and work on coordination.

Tasty Tuesday​: Nutritionist, Ms. Angela Coursey, made​ a healthy rainbow smoothie with the children. With each ingredient that was added, she taught them what the health benefits are. So it was that they learned that red fruit is particularly beneficial to the heart. Most of the children thought the smoothie was delicious!

Artsy Wednesday​: Probably the highlight of the week, as we got off campus for a visit to Caribbean Museum Center for​ the Arts (CMCA). Our trip on the taxi bus was also very exciting. Everyone was looking for familiar landmarks and pointing out directions to their homes. Once we arrived at the museum,  we were given a tour of exhibits and explanations about several of their favorite pieces on display. They also had the opportunity to create their own art using water color. With everyone already looking quite tired and hot, we still managed a short walk over to the clock tower and admire the beautiful sea. Many thanks to our hosts at CMCArts and to the parents who joined us and helped keep an eye on this high energy group.

Work Together Thursday​: Coach Jacob kindly set up a fun obstacle course in the gym for our ELC children to have fun in. They ran and jumped and tumbled and happily repeated the course several times. At the end of it they worked together to help fold and stack the large mats that were a part of the course. Thank you, Coach Jacob!

Family Friday​: Though the field trip created a lot of excitement, it was this event that Kindergarteners seemed to look forward to the most. Thank you to all for helping us end the week on such a beautiful note! 

Kindergarten News - Week of April 6th

  We have had 130 days of school!

Announcements/Reminders:

                                                              

Happy Birthday to Nylah (April 10th)!! 

• Permission Slip: If you have not done so already, please sign and return the permission slips for our field trip on April 15th to the Caribbean Museum for the Arts (CMCA) that were sent home earlier this week. 
• SHOW and TELL on Monday, April 13th: Nylah and Jasper. Please bring one item from home to show to the class.
• NEXT week (April 13-17) is the Week of the Young Child (WOYC)!  Hurray!  This annual celebration, sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the world's largest early childhood education association, features special events for children every year. Below is a tentative schedule of activities to engage and honor the children as we celebrate them​:
  April 13 – Music Monday​: Mr. Deval Stevens, GHCDS steel pan​ instructor, will play steel pan music for the children.
  April 14 – Tasty Tuesday​: Nutritionist, Ms. Angela Coursey, will make​ healthy smoothies with the children.
  April 15 – Artsy Wednesday​: Art at Caribbean Museum Center for​ the Arts (CMCA) - There will be a field trip to CMCA, located in
  Frederiksted.
  April 16 – Work Together Thursday​: Coach Jacob will lead the​ children in working together to build obstacle courses and have fun.
  April 17 - Family Friday​: Parents are invited to bring lunch for​ themselves and their child, and enjoy eating together at school. Lunch
  starts at 12:15pm.
• FOLDERS: Please check these and remove all papers.
• Bloomz: Please check the Bloomz App for reminders and the latest photos - in the “April 2026” album.

•    Practice at home:

• Black & White reading books: No new books were sent home this week.  If you have one at home, please return it on Wednesday, for a new take home book.
• ​Phonics: Spelling words with digraphs (wh, sh, ch, th, ck).
• Math: Fill it to Five

A Peek at our Week:

MATH: How Heavy? Weight & Number   Who knew a scale could be so exciting?

This week we introduced a new Work Place which will give everyone the opportunity to compare the weights of different items. We have a ‘pan balance scale’ which they will be using for this activity. If you have any small items at home that would work well for this activity (and can stay in our class for a few weeks), feel free to send it to school. In Number Corner we are also looking at different types of measurement - length, capacity, temperature, and weight. Please check the Unit 7 overview.

SEL: In our social emotional lesson this week, Ms. Bird asked the class to think of moments where someone was unkind to them or when they were unkind to someone. For each of these moments, Ms. Bird, holding a paper cutout of a person, punched a hole in it. The class cringed each time she did - a true reflection of how unkind words can hurt. The lesson then being that we can apologize for our unkind words and actions, but it is hard to completely erase the hurt we caused.

Butterfly Smash Art. Everyone loves those beautiful colorful fluttering creatures. We talked about the symmetry of butterfly wings and did our best to replicate by using paint and "smashing" both wings together. The results were amazing. As some finished with their butterfly they stuck around to see what the next one would look like and were surprised each time by the result. Pictures when this art project is complete!

Cambridge Global Perspectives: Quite appropriately, as we approach Earth Day, we are learning about things that we can do to take care of the earth. We talked about being more mindful of using paper and how we could dispose of different items if we could recycle everything.

Kindergarten News - Week of March 30th

 We have had 126 days of school!

Announcements/Reminders:

                                                              ​​

​To everyone celebrating, Happy Easter!! 

• Permission Slip: If you have not done so already, please sign and return the permission slips for our field trip on April 15th to the Caribbean Museum for the Arts (CMCA) that were sent home earlier this week.
• NO SCHOOL next Thursday (April 2nd): Conferences
• NO SCHOOL next Friday (April 3rd) and Monday (April 6th): Easter Break
• SHOW and TELL on Monday, April 13th: ​Nylah and Jasper. Please bring one item from home to show to the class.

• FOLDERS: Please check these and remove all papers.
• Bloomz: Please check the Bloomz App for reminders and the latest photos - in the “March/April 2026” album.

•    Practice at home:

• Black & White reading books​: No new books were sent home this week.  If you have one at home, please return it on Wednesday, for a new take home book.
• Digraph Detective ​-​ look for digraphs (wh, sh, ch, th, ck) in stories you are reading at home.
• ​Find the Trick (Sight) Words in favorite story books

A Peek at our Week:

Show and Tell: This week our two Birthday celebrants were in the Show and Tell spotlight. Leith brought a Hot Wheels track with car. Everyone was fascinated by how the car zoomed around the loop on the track. Leith did a great job demonstrating how it worked. Then Olivia showed her beautiful Tiana Barbie doll, who would magically start singing Happy Birthday. By the end of the presentation, the whole class was singing along to Tiana's Birthday song!

Gardening with Ms. Christina: It had been a while since we 'worked' in the

garden. This week, Ms. Christina took the class in search of sweet potatoes. She showed them how to check if there were any and then they started digging them up. By the end they had uncovered 21 sweet potatoes! Afterwards, the class tasted pieces of sweet potato that Ms. Christina has already prepared for them. They then had a piece of brownie. And as they were enjoying them, they learned that there were sweet potatoes in the brownies! They also munched on a couple of cucumbers that were also growing in our garden. 

Easter Egg Hunt:  This week was all about the Easter Egg Hunt! The class was so excited! On Tuesday we dyed hard boiled eggs. Having already smelled vinegar during an experiment a few week ago, everyone was eager to avoid it, but they were happy to measure a tablespoon of vinegar for their dye mixture. In addition, Ms. Jessica (Nicholas' mom) let us borrow a little machine that rotated the egg while each child used markers to make lines. Those turned out really great! The Easter Egg Hunt itself took place on Wednesday morning. Many thanks to Olivia's, Nylah's and Kinnick's mom (and grandma) for our “Easter Bunnies” this year! The children had a fun time searching for the eggs and got some practice giving their friends hints to find their eggs. Thank you, as always, for your support and for sending some treats to add to their baskets.