Happy Wednesday Pine Friends! Today we played more with our magic words UP and DOWN and our good question WHO? Our centers helped us practice our letters and letter sounds as well as making our names. We also got a chance to work on our motor skills (coordination, balance, etc.). We are also learning some new skills about the books we read: what the story is about, how to retell the story in order (first, next, last; beginning & ending), and WHO the characters are. Lastly, we practiced our Earthquake drill. Feel free to discuss this at home so your child feels educated and safe if something like that were to happen. (At school they may announce it or the building might start shaking which could cause things to fall. We then need to crawl under the table and tuck our bodies like a turtle and cover our heads with our hands.)
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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