Hello Pine Family, happy Monday! We are so glad to be here on this most gorgeous day! We started some new centers today exploring a space in our sensory tub, exploring messy play through shaving cream, and building with blocks and experimenting with different kinds of ramps for our cars. Ms. Kari joined us during our exploration and lead our group time at the carpet. She sang Old McDonald using animal dolls to make it more interactive for our friends. We used the magic words "CAN YOU...?" and then friends watched an action and had to try and do it. Those that did it said, " I CAN DO IT!" Monday is our Forest day and we noticed how much all the greenery has grown back. When we returned to school we munched on snack and our friends noticed that our Butterflies came out of their chrysalis! We thought it would be fun to name them: Sonic, Flappy, Tails, Mario, and Spiderman!
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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