Colors in the Water

This morning the Pine kids were challenged to participate in a mindfulness activity with food coloring and water. Each child took turns placing just one drop of food coloring into the water. It was difficult, but with a little bit of working together the kids were successful in dropping and watching. The video is a compilation of different kids taking turns with the colors and watching it float through the water.

Each child's reaction is filled with joy as the colors spread throughout the water. They stayed engaged and focused on the colors moving slowly and finally filling the whole vase with green, red, blue, or green. It was a great relaxing activity on this gloomy Monday.

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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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