Taking care of the hillside

Small Capers

                      Observational plant drawings in Blue Room

                          And sand on the light table 

 

      Some friends rode on the train in Red Room

          Other friends worked with ramps in the gym

Fun in the Motor Room

During Caper Time the children explore in the motor room.  Today they explored with different materials to build towers.  They used the large ball pendulum to knock down the tower.

Playing inside the maze is always fun.  There are many openings that take you through a large maze. You are never sure where you may come out on the maze.

And what's more fun than creating a jumping machines that allows you to jump from one end to the other.

Over the course of this year, the children have evolved with their use of lines in the classroom

and how to fit those lines together to represent their ideas. Multiple conversations have taken place 

regarding roller coasters and the kinds of lines that are used. Today, we introduced of provocation using a different medium of paper strips. We started with a blank canvas. 

 "I'm going to make a straight line." -NZ 

                 Can you see the loopty loop?

Building fine motor skills and hand strength using scissors 

              Now where do we go?

       "It needs to turn to go back inside." -CD 

We used pieces like this to fill the holes in the track. 

          "It's wavy." -NZ 

         We took a close look as a class before heading to lunch.

                  What do you notice? 

                        Straight

                      There's circles

                         Bumpy 

                      Loopty loops

                           Wavy 

                           Turns 

                        Down and Up

                     Round and round

                         High up 

                 Backwards and forwards 

                         Flat

"Wild"

The story of "Wild" has evolved from the children's interest and conversations regarding space. 

Children were presented balls of yarn that they began to connect with one another.

We dedicated a space in our classroom that allowed for further exploration with space on a larger scale. The children worked individually and collaboratively to create the space. 

MG was even inspired to write a poem about the space.

We later added colorful ribbons to the space to see how the area would change.

We dedicated some time to move throughout the space. Some observations are below:

"Through this hole and pull. I'm still learning how to knot." 

"I'm going to take this path." 

"I wanted to take a long path." 

"Go through that big hole." 

"Step over." 

"I'm in a teeny spot." 

"I took shortcuts." 

"Back the other way." 

The children used their drawing expressions and added words to tell the feeling of the drawing. We have been talking about poems and how they are designed.  Here are a few samples of some poems the children have been working on.

Taking care of the playscape

Parts of the playscape are needing some protection. We visited the playscape to allow these 

areas to be more visible by tying yarn and manipulating pipe cleaners.

               "I made an M." - RJ

          We drew pictures to add to this space. 

         "What might you see on the playscape?" 

                            "Bumblebee." -MC