Today with played with Ms. Julie (our Occupational Therapist). We also did not go outside for recess as it was too yucky in our play area on the playscape. Instead, we explored the hallway, building an obstacle course! We also explored our common area in our pod and played with colored paintbrushes in colored sand on the light table, rice and noodles in the sensory table and wooden building blocks on the floor.
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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