Following Instructions... Sort Of

The Pine friends joined in with kids from Dogwood to participate in weekly capers. They enjoy being able to play with friends from the other class in addition to getting to play with the materials they have out in their room.

This week B, L, E, & C worked on building with magnetic blocks.

"You have to follow the instructions so you can build different stuff! Like me, I am building this thing that doctors use and put around their neck and listen to people."

B began constructing what looked exactly like a stethoscope.

"The instructions tell you to build it like this and so that's what I am doing."

"I am using the instructions to build a rocket ship! But I am also making it like this. It needs wheels like like this thing here and a fan!"

"Rocket ships don't have fans!"
"Mine does!"

As the boys and L built they talked about the different modifications they did instead of following the instructions exactly. They bargained with one another to use different parts and even added on to one another's.

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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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