100 days celebration

KZE students celebrated 100 days of school on Friday, February 5th. Students came up with ideas to celebrate this important milestone of their learning journey. They made hats with 100 decorations, created pictures with 100 dots/stickers/pompoms, made paper chains with 100 strips, made necklaces with 100 beads, counted 100 words, read 100 words, and wrote 100 words. They all said that they are 100 days smarter because…

Julia: “I am 100 days smarter because I can write stories and do math problems.”
Safir: “I am smarter at math – I can compose and decompose numbers.”
Veronika: “I am better at math – I can count to 100.”
Gabi: “When I came to school I didn’t know too much. Now I can read and write.”
Emmi: “I am 100 days smarter because I can write my own books now.”
Amie: “I have learnt more math and PE, reading and writing. I have learnt a lot of things!”
Nick: “I am 100 days smarter because I can do many new things. I know nearly all my sounds.”
Ada: “When I came to kindergarten I was not so good at math. Now I can do math and I can count to 100.”
Alex: “I am better at reading and writing – I can read really difficult books now.”
Alexandra: “I know how to read and write now and can do more than I could at the beginning of Kindergarten.”
Seok: “I can read more and know my letters.”
Altai: “I am 100 days smarter because I can count to more than 101 and I can count to 1000 in 10s.”
Tomasz: “I am 100 days smarter. On my 1st day of Kindergarten, I just knew a little bit math. But now I know a lot of math like how to compare length, height, and weight.”
Mali: “I am 100 days smarter because I learned so many things in so many days like math and PE. I wasn’t good at drawing and math before. Now I am good at them.”

KZE students not only are 100 days smarter. They continue to grow as reflective learners!!!

Beautiful Things

We started a new unit of inquiry “How We Express Ourselves” this week. As a connection to our own lives, KZE students brought in beautiful things from home. They had a chance to explore and share their noticing:

Julia: “They are beautiful because they have beautiful colors.”
Alexandra: “Some of them are sparkly, some of them are not. But I still like them because I love all the stuffs.”
Ada: “They are beautiful because some of them have pictures on it.”
Tomasz: ” They are beautiful because they are shinny and sparkly.”
Amie: “They are beautiful because they are all different.”
Safir: “They are beautiful because some of them have patterns.”
Altai: “I love beautiful things because some of them are big, some of them are small. I like them because they are different sizes.”
Alex:” I love them because some of them are shinny, some of the are toys, some of them are marbles. You just don’t know what they could be.”
Gabi: “I noticed that some of the things are soft, some of them are not soft. They are all different.”
Nick: “They are beautiful because they are different.”
Mali: ” They are beautiful because some of the shells are painted and sparkly.”
Veronika: ” They are beautiful because they are different and are from different places.”
Seok: “They are beautiful because they have different shapes.”

What are we going to do with these beautiful things?
We can
make a pictures, hang them up, create a art piece, make pattern, show them to other people, and create things.

We can’t wait to share with you what we will create with these beautiful things.

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