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Last week  in PB, we were talking about the guideline in the classroom, getting into the routine, putting things back where they go, learning names and having fun.

This week we will be working with the theme,  All About Me.
Book Corner: Getting to know books about school.

Writing: Children find letters, discuss their shapes, trace them with their fingers and write them. 
Materials: letter blocks, magnetic letters, letter cards.

Math: Children make collages with different shapes. Materials: cut-out construction paper shapes, paper and glue.

Science: Children move a toy machine such as a train and talk about how they are moving it and where it is going. Materials: trains and train tracks.

Dramatic Play: Children act out about things they do in school.

Construction: Children use blocks to build a school. Materials: Unit blocks, rocks, little people.

Art: Children Decorate their names. They practices writing or tracing their names. Materials: markers, crayons, water color, glitter.

Sand table: Children make shapes in the sand.

Religion: Children practice The Lord’s Prayer every morning during circle time.

In science the children are experimenting with objects that sink and float when placed in water. We then took objects that did float and tried to make them sink. The children added objects to increase the weight or added weight to just a corner to see if the raft or boat would tip. Then each children made their own raft. They observed how long their rafts would float. Then they added weight and observed how much weight their rafts could hold.

 

I was so impressed with what the children came up with yesterday during our motion lesson.

We first made a ramp as a class. Then we raced objects down the ramp. I had the idea to race different vegetables.

I wanted the children to brain storm and guess which would win and why. We discussed the texture, weight, size and shape of the vegetable. Then we added in marbles, balls, crayons and pompons. By the end of the day the children were racing TP rolls, water bottles, crayons…… During part of the lesson the children had to get a foam ball through a hole. They had to experiment with height of their ramp, blowing the ball and distance. On another table they were launching plastic bugs toward a target.

 

What’s next you ask? I am going to try balloon rockets and marshmallow launchers.



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We are learning about kindness. The children listened to the book, Have You Filled a Bucket Today’s?  Then the kids helped create a poster and a bucket to fill with hearts.

 

 

Growing crystals.

 

We made rockets out of gummy hearts and toothpicks

The childeren pare learning about outer space.

The children were introduced to the letter F by Paining with feathers.

This year we have started two raised garden beds. One is an organic vegetable garden and the other has flower bulbs that will be turned into a pumpkin patch next fall.

    

We have been receiving post cards from across the country and around the world. The children will be making foods and doing crafts to learn about other cultures.