Before Valentine's Day the at-school friends were given a tray each with a specific number of pattern blocks on it. Their challenge? Make a heart. The friends did an amazing and creative array of different hearts using just their pattern blocks. After they spent a while trying different combinations, they received a pattern to try and copy that would make a heart using all their blocks. After all this work they recorded the number of blocks they had used and the shape of each block. 

 

Kindergarten students, both at home and on campus, looked at the celebration of the Lunar New Year this week. The dragon dance particularly took everyone's fancy. You can tell that they learned that red is an important color in the Lunar New Year celebration. Students designed their dragons in whatever way they chose. Xin nian hao! Happy New Year!

 

This year the Bumblebees had the opportunity to "adopt" a calf at a dairy farm. They were so excited when their calf, Pearl, was born last November. This week the students designed and built a stall for Pearl. They needed to provide her with shelter, food, water, a place to rest and room to move around. They did amazing work designing and building these shelters, at their homes, out of any materials they chose.