Amaryllis - Saturday

Amaryllis - Saturday, originally uploaded by shersteve.

Dolores and her kindergarten friends were growing this amaryllis plant at Oak St School. She brought it home so we could tend to it rather than leave it at school during school break this week.

This is a good plant to use with a classroom of kindergarteners. The plant grows so quickly. It came home with the two blooms pictured here. It has already added a third. The stem in the background is also starting to show flower color as it begins to expand.

Such a lovely color for a dreary, raining mid-winter day.

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Oak St Kindergarten again

Last week's Gazette article on Oak Street's certification in NAEYC is in today's Milford Daily News

Oak Street Kindergarten Featured in Gazette

Photo credit: Ken McGagh/Milford Daily News Staff photographer

Heather McCarron's article in this week's Franklin Gazette opens:

It’s "choice time" in Dolores Sherlock’s kindergarten classroom at the Oak Street Elementary School, and the children are variously engaged in reading, playing dress-up, and creating artwork with pieces of construction paper, Q-Tips, cotton balls, crayons and colored glue.

"London Bridge is falling down," chants 5-year-old Lily Barney, watching some Q-Tips she has fashioned into a bridge begin to sag under the weight of the glue she has used to meld them together.

No matter. She tilts her head closer, as if the added concentration might make a difference, and props the Q-Tips back up.

Read the remainder of the article here.


PS - yes, Dolores is my lovely and talented wife. You can check out Dolores's classroom page on the Oak Street web site for additional info on the full kindergarten class schedule and pictures of her friends activities.

Congratulations, Oak Street School!

Dolores received this good news yesterday. She is part of the Kindergarten Team at Oak Street that worked diligently for this certification.

Corine Minkle, Principal
Oak Street Elementary School (723096)
224 Oak Street
Frankiln, MA 02038

Dear Ms. Corine Minkle;

Congratulations! Your program has achieved accreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. The administration, teaching staff, and families of Oak Street Elementary School are all to be congratulated for being one of the first programs in the country to earn the mark of quality represented by the reinvented NAEYC Accreditation system. On behalf of NAEYC, and specifically the NAEYC Academy for Early Childhood Program Accreditation, I commend your program’s outstanding efforts in pursuing NAEYC Accreditation.

Well done!