A special performance

  We had a visit from the High School orchestra this morning. 

They played some music from Frozen, Brave, The Incredibles, 

  And Madagascar. Thanks for coming!!

Letter provocation

Multi-step art

         Make a plan for a drawing

                    Re-tracing our work

                                     Add watercolors

Provocation with a tape measure

     The children have been using many words of measurement

     and comparing sizes with many items in the classroom. 

       "I want mine to be taller." 

              "Yours is shorter." 

                "This tower is a 30."

                 Recording our data

    The children measured the pendulum, shelves, 

     and towers. Look closely for the representations of these 

     items seen written before the numbers.

    

Simple machines

           Motions we have observed with

                the pendulum:

      Spinning, Twirling, bouncing, going fast, 

        slowing down, and high

A Sewing Experience

Today we worked on creating a pillow on a sewing machine. The children picked their fabric, pinned it in place, and used the foot pedal to sew a pillow along with adding stuffing.

"I'm going to see what's in here."

"I know how to do this because this is how my dad does it."

Direction

Elise-"Which way do we turn the screw?"

Abbie-"Turn it left. It's lefty loosy, righty tighty. See, this is left. It has an L."

"Airplane!"

Remi's Dad Teaches Soccer Skills During Small Capers

The children were so excited to have Remi's dad visit today. He is a professional soccer coach who came in to teach them soccer skills. They learned that it is more important to keep the ball close than to kick it away. There were a lot of smiles and determination as the time went on. Today was an awesome day!!

Celebrating a friend's birthday!

    Some friends helped design a castle in honor of Grace's birthday today and also made

    her a birthday card.

Making our List of Jet Parts

"This is really hard work." - Grace

    A small group of children went to the Atelier to take some machines apart. Before we started,

    We discussed some of the tools we saw when we arrived. 

    Wrench: turns wheels and helps get things off

    Hammer: puts nails down

    Screwdriver: To take screws in and out (one is flat that we call pointy, one is bigger that is circlie) 

    Measurer: how long, wide, or tall something is, you can also count

   

            Observations:

         "It weighs 15." - Charlotte 

         "It's too tight in there." - Colman 

         "Mr. Johnny uses these tools." - Grace

         "Why do none of these have batteries except standing ones?" - Billy

         "Look at all the wires in there!" 

         "Use strong muscles." - Colman 

Caring for the space

As the weather gets warmer, we are beginning to wake up the playscape. We took a small groups outside to begin pulling weeds, picking up trash, and caring for the playscape. 

Can you help us?!

We are looking for old machines to take apart. So please look around your homes

and bring in anything you think we could use. 

        VCR and DVD players

              Walkie talkies

           Old telephones

          Keyboards and computers