Collaborative Art

When thinking about how we can continue to foster our community in the classroom, we also have to consider the class that is right next door.. Dogwood! We are so fortunate to share a room with another class that shares a lot of the same interests. So what's one way we can bring it all together? Through art!

Today, N joined the boys over in Dogwood to help create a masterpiece. It wasn't typical painting with brushes... instead the boys used cotton balls and clothespins!

This was such a fun way to interact with our Dogwood friends in addition to creating something all together. Team work is just one of the core values in our room and we take any opportunity we can to strengthen that.

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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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