Discovery Parents,

This spring, our Kindergarten and first graders are exploring the life-cycles, features, and behaviors of several animals.  In Kindergarten, students are exploring goldfish, guppies, snails, worms, and isopods.  In first grade, students are exploring the life-cycles of mealworms and painted lady butterflies.  These explorations present an excellent opportunity for students to get face to face with living creatures and study them.  I had the pleasure of observing a lesson in Sra. Serrano-Stanco’s Kindergarten room today.  Students were so excited to explore and investigate their night-crawler worms that they nearly missed recess.  This is what Discovery Academy is all about: getting dirty both physically and mentally.  Students were trying out different experiments to see how the worms would react, they were comparing the amount of segments, and even looking at the ways in which the worms interacted with their environment.  It’s a wonderful remind of just how powerful digging in the dirt in your back yard with your child can be.  I will post some pictures from Kindergarten later.

-Mr. Reed-Swale