This year we learned about.... Hopes and Dreams Letters to Standing Rock Glossary of Nonviolence Arawak book Columbus Day studies of Arawak people History with Howard Zinn Native Foods Cooking: green chile-corn pudding, maple-whipped sweet potatoes, greens: collards, spinach, water cress, spiced black-eyed peas and sweet potatoes, boiled maple syrup Evaporation Grains Herpetology Species profiles and poster presentations on five-lined skink, spring...

  These are the things we could write books about: Koalas! Double-digit subtraction Monarch butterflies "Said" is dead (using descriptive words) Riddles Paper flowers Homophones Creativity Finger knitting Prayer flags Rube Goldberg machines Polywogs Group art Singing Mother's Day gifts Measurement Selu -- Life on a '30s farm Reading Friendship Making board games Area The Monster Project Tadpoles Character Studies Descriptive words Zoos Baking cookies Dancing Mindfulness Animal adaptation Times tables Drawing Painting Letters to Santa Dissecting a Monarch chrysalis Self regulation Harriet Tubman U.S. maps Meditation Animal classification Martin Luther King,...

This year we learned... A mountain weighs the same as a teaspoon of a neutron star There is ice on Mars To be calm Cheese has protein Seeds fall from flowers My teachers are nice About space Baking soda and vinegar react You can be kind even if you're rough Plants help the earth Autumn is called Fall How to spell When my...

What we learned this year, in our own words... How to take care of friends How to take care of our classroom How to take care of Haven What Haven eats Not touching Haven’s head Be with friends Eating, playing, dancing How to hug friends How to be patient How to be a dinosaur How to be a scientist Paleontologist! Playing Jurassic World We...

Written by BMS Early Learning and Forest Kindergarten teacher, Jenni Heartway. One of the exciting things about being a teacher is that by pursuing our own interests, we are actually being reflective practitioners.  In other words, we are practicing what we preach.    Encouraging our students to follow their own passions would...