Good morning AM Pine families! Today we kept chugging along with our magic words put and where. We did change up a couple centers, but kept the same goodies in our sensory table. At the table, we played with slime and put colorful pom poms in it. At the carpet, we used blocks to build a Zoo for our zoo animals. For our sign-in, we chose a picture of a zoo animal and had to draw our own version of it, and will be using them for different activities this week. We will be reading Put Me in the Zoo by Robert Lopshire which will tie together some of our new centers & sign-in.. Ms. Kari came to visit during centers and led our group time at the carpet where we ended by making Mat Man.
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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