On Wednesdays during distance learning the Bumblebees have been working on their passions projects. These projects have been completely of their own choosing. They study the subject for as long as they want and then I only ask that they make a presentation of their study to me and the class when they feel finished with their passion project. Above is a picture of the way one friend decided to present his passion project about pandas. He brought this magazine to a Zoom and explained all about it to us. It was fantastic. We have also had a video made about bunnies with a focus on their digestive system and the function of their hearing, a presentation about rocks and minerals which included rock painting and a presentation that included boards full of information about many birds. These have been amazingly well put together and elaborate. Great job, Bumblebees! I am so impressed with your work.

The Bumblebees are studying Celebrations of Light around the world. They made such an amazing and unique set of Krathongs following our study of Loy Krathong in Thailand. It is a celebration where people put floating flower boats (Krathong) with candles on them in the river and as they float away the people send all the negative from the past year away with the boats. The kindergarten students made such lovely flower boats I had to preserve them here for all to enjoy.

 

Bumblebees, and all of Seabury, spent November remembering all we have to be grateful for. Here are the hand turkeys that some of the Bumblebees made. We are all grateful this year for family and friends, for school and learning. Here are a few other more unique things Bumblebees are grateful for this year:

Cheetahs, mystical creatures, pictures, hammocks, portals, elephants, vegetables, our adopted calf, a mermaid robe, pandas, Minecraft, National Geographic, rainbows and our hearts. I am thankful, as always, for the joy these students bring me every day. 

 

 

I wanted to share this work of the Bumblebees to demonstrate how the kindergarten students study the same things together but as they approach the work, they each work at a level that is a comfortable challenge for them. I call it a medium hard level. You can see here that some students write out the questions and answers themselves. Some students dictate their answers after having had the questions read to them. Some students read the written questions and write their own answers. Everyone works at their own level - medium hard!

 

Only at a school like Seabury would I be teaching multiplication in kindergarten and have all the students understanding and working on the subject but some friends say, I don't remember how to make a 6. :) 

 

Here are the Bumblebees at our Halloween celebration. We had a wonderful party thanks to our amazing room parents, even if it was 6 feet apart, masked and some in person and some on Zoom. We played a game, did a craft, had a yummy treat and listened to fun songs. School is different this year but we are making it work!

 

Here are the Bumblebees busy with what they have started calling their "morning work". Each morning the at school students have a manipulative on their desks to use. I choose the manipulative but what they do with it is completely up to them. I have been so impressed by the amazing math that the students have come up with completely on their own in this morning work time. Here are some examples; working on what it takes to create balance, exploring area and perimeter, creating a net of a cube, a hexagonal tessellation, and maze discovery. And I did not cherry pick the best of their work! This is all happening at once on one morning that I took photos. They never cease to amaze me.