Welcome to the second week of 2022! This week we are continuing our magic words up, down, and where? Ms. Kari is back and she brought a friend (college student) Lara who will be joining us for a while. Our centers consisted of winter playdough, sensory table rice, and beanbag toss. Our indoor gross motor space was in the gym. We had lots of fun pretending and playing together. To end our day we sang Happy Birthday to our friend and we played parachute to our up/down song.
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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