Primary Room 5

September 2025

What an incredible start to the 2025-2026 school year in our Primary classroom! Teachers and students were thrilled to be back in their classroom environment and to see new and returning friends and families. Students were quick to notice new jobs on the shelves and went straight to work.

September was learning All About Me and our families. Students practiced introducing themselves, sharing some of their favorites such as food, color, and what they wanted to be when they grew up. They also shared characteristics about themselves and shared their family photos. From there, we explored our five senses – touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing. For art, we made “All About Me” faces using a paper plate, handprints inspired by Andy Warhol and our literature book The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn.

Students had an introduction to plants and animals. We learned ways to take care of a plant by tending to its leaves and checking its soil for watering. We discussed the basic needs a plant needs to grow and parts of a plant through hands on activities. Students also tended to the garden beds in our playground and weren’t afraid to get their little hands dirty. We explored pictures of living and non-living things and discussed characteristics on how to identify something that is living or non-living. Can it breathe? Can it move? Can it eat? Can it grow? From there, we explored animals and their parts. We also learned how animals communicate using sounds and body language. We focused on our special subject of the month – the life cycle of a frog – and learned they are born with gills, undergo a remarkable change and develop lungs to breathe air.



Warm regards,

MS. April and Ms. Ariana