Hello Pine Family! We had a great day inside despite the gloomy weather outside. We continued with trains, and dollhouse but for a game today we played a farm game that helped us work on colors, animal sounds, and taking turns. We also used descriptive words to guess the animals. Since it was so rainy out we did gross motor time in the Collaboratory where we played with big blue blocks, the wind tunnel and the ball wall. For snack we slurped up some applesauce and granola bar. To end our day we answered the question, "what filled your bucket today" and got to add to our class bucket!
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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