This year in K/1, our unit of study will be Social Studies, focusing first on our individual families and homes, their make-up, and how they are similar/different from each other. We will then explore our community, mainly looking at the community of Inman Park and surrounding neighborhoods. We will explore the different components of the neighborhood and why they are important. Lastly, we will study the United States, with most of the focus being on the states that the children are familiar with, have traveled to, or have lived in.

Since school has started, the K/1 class has been busy making paste paper books in art class.  The books are about themselves and is a representation of how they see themselves in this world.  We have also put together a classromm address book that contains the children’s addresses and pictures of their homes.

In Science class, the K/1 has been studying botany.  They have planted sunflower seeds and have been charting their growth.  They have also been experimenting with different types of soil and learning about what type of soil provides the best conditions for plant growth.  We recently took a trip to the State Farmer’s Market after reading the book Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert.  At the farmer’s market, we picked out some of the vegetables mentioned in the book and brought them back to school to make vegetable soup!  It was quite an adventure for our first field trip of the school year!