Welcome back Pine friends! It is sure to be a fun week of extended summer like weather. This week we will continue to focus on the word TURN with fun ways to practice. Our centers explore movement, light and shadows, and some creepy crawlies. Thursday we plan to have some extra special fun exploring a pumpkin! Although we don’t do Halloween costumes, you are invited to wear themed pjs or your favorite spooky outfit!
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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