Happy Monday Pine Family! Today we started on a new adventure. We are learning the magic (opposite) words of in and out. Our good question word is Who? For our social skills center we are playing a game called Alphabet Island where they pick a card, identify the letter, find the match and then put it IN the shark. For our motor center we had to put a snowball in the spoon, walk the balance beam, and put it IN the snowman. For our sensory center, we went on a scavenger hunt IN the sensory table and where we had to find letters hiding IN the rice, take them OUT and see if they are letters IN our name. We had gross motor time outside today on the upper playscape, sorry it was a little muddy!
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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