Welcome back! It feels so good to be back in the classroom with all these boys, especially for Week of the Young Child! This we we are celebrating every day with a different theme each day. Today was musical Monday! The boys played with all kinds of instruments this morning in addition to being able to dance and sing to some of our favorite songs. Such a great way to start the week!
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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