Welcome to week # 8! We are kicking this week off exploring some different interests. We have enjoyed watching the birds on our feeder on our window so we decided to bring that learning inside! Our small world is open where we have various birds and items birds may need to make a nest. We also love taking care of baby dolls so we created a doctor's office where friends can explore the many ways doctors help take care of us. Fall colors and interest in bugs inspired our new sensory table exploration. Our words of the week are OPEN and CLOSE and we will explore the many ways we can use these in our everyday lives.
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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