Skip to main content

Curiosity

Welcome to a new week! 

Today, the boys' curiosity really drove a lot of what we did this morning. Our morning began like any other, but there was something new one one of the tables... floam!

 N sat with a big pile of floam and explored the strange bubbly texture. He would roll it on the table and watch the small sticky balls stick to his hands and table. N giggled as he tried to peel each one off. He made several attempts to try and "break" the floam, but didn't find much success. That didn't stop him from trying out different ways to play with it: hiding animals, dropping it off the table, and finally pressing hard onto the table to make it flat. 

Across the table, however, L sat with his floam and furrowed brow. In the video below you can see how L examines the floam with such curiosity! For about the next 10 minutes, L sat with his floam really studying it and moving it around to explore it in its entirety. Just look at those eyebrows! 



The curiosity didn't just stop at the small stuff, it continued with the big stuff too! We took a long walk today and added in some necessary curiosity breaks. N wasn't too happy that today wasn't our forest day, but he was excited to be able to check out a tree close to the sidewalk to practice his climbing. As he climbed, he quickly realized his shoes were too wet to climb on the higher branches. 




N climbed up and noticed the moss growing between the bark on the tree. He ran his fingers up and down the bark before finally sliding off the trunk and trying it again.  



Our last curiosity break was the teeniest and tiniest wondering. L plopped down onto the sidewalk and began following an ant crawling across the cold cement. He got up close and personal with the ant before losing him under a leaf. 

It was a great day to start off our week! 



Comments

Popular posts from this blog

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...

9 more left to go

 It was a Ms Amy day!

Happy Wednesday

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