Kindergarten Chickadees: February 2 - 6, 2026

Osiyo, Chickadee Families,

Thank you for joining us for the Spring Curriculum Morning and All School Meeting on Saturday. Thank you for organizing and bringing items for the class potluck, as well. We deeply appreciate your dedication to your children and the school.

The Chickadees are learning, growing, and using their minds and bodies in new ways every day!  Last week, students engaged in “heavy work” often during play. Heavy work is a type of play or activity that provides proprioceptive input to the muscles and joints, giving children a way to build both bodily awareness and emotional regulation. Students jumped up and hugged trees, jumped from the safe distance of the small tree fort, and crawled and rolled on the ground. One of the many incredible benefits of child-led outdoor play is that it allows them to develop these necessary skills. Given time and space to explore, using loose parts and natural materials like trees, stumps, cut branches, and spare lumber, the students learn about the world and how things work through their own curiosity and process of discovery. 

This week, some of the students put a plank between two stumps, searching and testing out different ideas until they found one just the right length and width for crossing as a bridge. They tested to see how many students their bridge could hold, and whether two students could cross at the same time. Other students took a long cut branch and, placing it in the crook of a tree, tested different ways of moving themselves and others on it as if it were a seesaw. Chickadee students also used sticks and small shovels to take apart an old log. Inside, they found several grubs, which they decided were injured and needed to be transported in the wheelbarrow to a “grub hospital”. The children worked together to find the right place to build the hospital and to keep the grubs comfortable. Chants of “Save the Grubs!” could be heard throughout the forest as they worked to help their small insect friends.

This week, the Chickadees will focus on the Lunar New Year. They will hear a tale about the origins of the celebration and make red decorations to take home. On Wednesday, they enjoy dumplings and tangerines for luck in the New Year.

Announcements & Reminders:

Spring Conferences are coming soon!  Please sign up here for your conference time on either Thursday, March 12th, or Friday, March 13th. Conferences are twenty minutes long, and I will work to keep that time to respect the conference times of other families and teachers. If you would like to meet for longer or do not see a time that works for you, please let me know, and we can schedule a different time. I look forward to meeting with each of you to discuss your amazing children.

  • February 12: Lunar New Year Performance 2:30 pm (all families welcome)

  • February 16-20: Mid Winter Break (No School)

  • February 23: Teacher in Service (No School)

  • March 7: Community Work Day 

  • March 12: Teacher-Parent Conferences (Half-day)

  • March 13: Teacher-Parent Conferences (No School)

Gyvalieliga,

Ki Holly

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