Dear families,
I can't believe it's the end of the year (almost!). The past couple weeks, I have been particularly sentimental and I'll catch myself sometimes just staring at the kinders in amazement and wonder. I honestly will miss them SO much. I don't know if you remember but at the beginning of the year, I read a book to students about math. I then gave them a piece of paper that said "Math is everywhere!" and asked them to draw or write ANYTHING they could think of pertaining to math. This was very abstract for kinders, indeed, and most ended up writing as many numbers as they could. Yesterday, I asked them if they remembered doing this activity. They couldn't even remember. :) I reminded them of the activity and told them that most of their papers just had numbers on it. The classroom filled with giggles. "I know it sounds silly!" I said. "But when you first started out, that's what you knew about math and that's okay. But think of how much you have grown! Think of all the things you could draw and write about now. What would you include now?" I was floored by the connections they could make. "We look for patterns!" "We write equations!" "We build!" "We challenge ourselves!" "We make number bonds!" As we came up with more and more examples, I felt so nostalgic thinking of all the memories we had made this year together. "Remember when we picked up 'noodles' with chopsticks and measured them?!" "Remember when we 'ate bugs' and told stories about how many were left?" "Remember celebrating the 100th day?!" The adventures we made together in the kinder room throughout this year will forever stay with me. I'm telling you right now, as the math specialist at Riverdale, I am EXCITED about this group of students and their math journey. I hope they will forever keep their enthusiasm, joy and love for math. Thank you to all of YOU because without your support, the year wouldn't have been the amazing journey it has been. As I told the students, once they are my students, they are always my students. To my kinder families, you will always be my families! Please do not hesitate to reach out should you have any questions. Happy summer to you all! Love, Vi Tamargo
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