Happy Monday Pine Families! It was a rainy day outside but a great, fun day inside! We missed your faces last week and were excited to all be back together again! This week our magic words are on and off. We are playing games, reading books and singing songs about on and off. Check out all the fun we had today! We worked on writing basic shapes and lines, had an adventure doing some yoga moves and walking across a balance beam to put letters on the table, and played with our wind tunnel in the common area. Our friends discovered some neat science items at the light table (bugs and leaves in acrylic blocks). We also got to paint the dream cards that parents made at Family Chats. Since it was pretty dreary out we decided to play in the gym today!
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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