Have a great weekend!!

Boing! Splat! Kaboom! Kapow!

                   Splatter painting

Belated birthday celebration

Three friends celebrated their birthdays over winter break. While 

We celebrated the first day back with a dance party. After further 

conversation, the friends decided on a sculpture. They wanted to

gather nature materials so we took a small group on a walk around

the school.

 The following week, the children began to design the sculpture over the

course of a couple of days. 

The finished masterpiece!! Happy belated birthday Hannah, Abbie, and Claire!!

We are stacking everywhere!!

We are beginning to test ideas of which materials are 

Stronger and stacking everywhere. Stay tuned....

Empanadas

Elise' Mom volunteered to come in and make Empanadas with our class today. The teacher took a small group in the kitchen where they participated in making the empanadas. The children were very excited and couldn't wait to indulge!

Look, I'm writing my name in the snow!!

12 works

The children have been experimenting with different ways of stacking

And making their structures strong. Billy persisted with stacking and was

Able to add one more piece to this structure of 11.

"Cold!"

"I'll teach you how to make an airplane."

Castle

A friend celebrated her birthday today. She asked to celebrate by having a few friends build her a castle in the block area.  Once they had finished, they enjoyed playing in the castle.

The language of wire

The children continue to move their bodies in different ways.

We represented our second self portraits through the 

language of wire. 

          We signed our names.

          Be on the lookout for a display soon!!

"My airplane is blowing!"

Wind

"I'm like a microphone."

What is balance?!

After noticing the children trying to balance blocks, we provided a provocation of a scale.

One friend suggested that we try out the sand in the sensory table. 

Charlotte made the following observation:

"How does that side have a little and that side has more?"

"That side is lower and down."

"Those materials are heavier than those."

"Let's add one more scoop to this side." 

Wind!!

"The wind is super strong!"

"Look guys it's sticking to my neck!"

Representational drawing- What did you do on your stay at home days?!

Ice sculpture

             The children were mixing colored water. They wanted to find a way to save them

                 And suggested putting them in the refrigerator (in the top).

     Two days later, we revisited the colors we had created.

            "They've turned to ice."- Claire 

          "It looks like a castle." - Elise 

        "Put it in the cracks." - Claire