Wait a second, it's not Monday, it's Tuesday! I hope you all stayed warm and had a fun surprise day off! I am excited to report that our friends jumped right back in today with smiles and remembered the expectations and routines of the Pine room. We continue to practice our magic word PUT and our good question word WHERE throughout out play. We explored oats and animals in the sensory table, making conversation about what it feels like, looks like, smells like, etc. We found hidden animal puzzle pieces and PUT them in the right place. We continued our pet shop/veterinarian imaginary play where we discussed how to care of animals and what supplies animals need. Since we finished making our dog house we worked on making collars for our pets! Some friends came up with names for the pets as well.
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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