Construction on the Block

Today the Pine friends took a short walk down the street to check out some construction. A lot of our friends were able to identify the different kinds of trucks, but were especially interested in watching the excavator. We talked about how it can stop and go when using the scoop. They also noticed other happenings. We ended our day by climbing around and then even trying out our own construction.

"Eye spy with my little eye, something blue!"

"Is it my shirt?"

"A excavator!"

"It's digging!"

"I think they are building a road for the cars to drive on."

"I see crystals!"

"I see the ants."

"Let's build this together. It's pretty hard."

"We are making a fan!"

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Submarine Update

Yesterday the Pine friends continued their exploration on how to create a submarine out of a box. They first started drawing sketches of how it should look. "It needs to have windows!" "We should make it yellow too." "It also needs a telescope (periscope)." Now that the drawing phase was complete, some friends wandered over to then build a submarine out of the blocks. They worked purposefully and explained the different parts as they worked. "We need to cut out a circle for it to be the telescope." B, V, & E continued to work with one another and make compromises throughout their building in order to make the best version of a submarine as they could. The three finished building their submarine, but noticed something was missing. "It needs a propeller so it can move!" How could they make a propeller? What does a propeller look like? The kids got to work on some research about wh...

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It was a Ms Amy day!

Happy Wednesday

How lucky are we that it was nice weather which allowed for much needed outside time!

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