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 what a propeller looks like.

"Well we need a propeller, but it has to go in the engine so it goes."

Pine friends worked in the tinkering room to create a propeller that spins just like real one!

"We need to keep the stick long so that way we can use it when we are sitting inside of the submarine."

The submarine plans are becoming finalized as the kids work through different challenges to create parts for the submarine. After break, we will continue to build a beautiful yellow submarine.

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Week 2 Day 2

Pine Family is rocking and rolling in week 2! We are having less feelings of sad, mad, and scared upon entering class and more happy and fun throughout the day! Friendly reminders: Water bottles should only come to school filled with water (it's the best for our bodies and in case another student would accidently take a sip it won't cause harm), sunscreen should be applied before drop off (there is not a lot of shade and not a lot of time for us to get the kiddos all lathered up), and bug spray should be applied before drop off (this is mostly needed when we start going to the forest on Tuesdays, starting on Sept 12th). Thanks :)

Welcome back

Happy Tuesday! I hope you enjoyed your extra long weekend together but glad to see you all today. We changed out our word of the week, ask your kiddo if they remember what it is (PUT). At centers we continued exploring small world and our bakery. We opened the sensory table again and some faux snow and polar animals which was a big hit! We also changed out our gross motor center, changing out our obstacle course (crawl through tunnel, jump 10 times on the trampoline, and (steam)roll or summersault on the mat) for some thing new. Ask your kiddo if they tried to scoop the snowball, carry it across the balance beam and PUT it on the snowman.

All the fun

Today was not a typical day in the Pine room. We pulled out some new items to explore, had an impromptu dance party, capered, had a practice fire drill (during snack of all times) and ended out in the sunshine by the snail. To our sick friends, we wish you well and hope to see you Monday! Have a great weekend :)

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