Hello and welcome back from the long holiday weekend. This week we will continue to practice our words GO and STOP but will be exploring some new invitations during centers. Friends have expressed interest in water play so our sensory table will be open for scooping and pouring. We will expand on go and stop with cars and balls on roads and ramps. Today was our first visit to the forest this year! We noticed that there is a mulched path that winds through vegetation for pollinators and a large tree that has fallen down. It can be very “buggy” in the forest and on the playscape so feel free to spray your child before school or send in spray for us to use.
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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