On Monday one of our PM kids brought in tadpoles for both classes to watch grow over the last few days we have in school. It wasn't until this morning that B finally noticed the little amphibians swimming around in the tank! He ran over all excited and started pointing at the teeny tiny tadpoles wriggling around in the murky water. Within a few minutes all the boys were rushing over to see! There were mixed reactions as the kids noticed the tadpoles. Some boys couldn't stop watching and even started swimming around like the tadpoles while others had furrowed brows and weren't sure what to think! We love having live animals in our room, it always provides for some of the best conversation and entertainment.
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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