Making pizza and donuts!

Our Birch friends have been building an interest in making food in our classroom.. 

Some of our friends noticed that the dough reminds them of pizza dough!

What do you put on your pizza dough? 

We rolled our dough out!

"I'm making mine into a big circle." JG

"I'm adding red sauce to my pizza!" JG

 

How are you going to cook your pizza? 

We need an oven but I don't see one. I wonder what we can use to make an oven...

We found a block with a giant opening so we can fit our baking sheets in there!

 

You're cutting your pizza into slices.. How many slices of pizza can you make? 

How do you know how long your pizza goes into the oven? 

"We have to set a timer so we know when it is done!" JG EH 

EH is using her dough to make donuts. 

She found a special way to cut her dough into the shape of a donut!

What do you need to add to your donut? 

"Sprinkles!!" EH

 

 

Snow Day in the Forest

Some days don't need words, they just need lots of snow and a sweet little video!

Enjoy your long weekend, see you Tuesday. 

Crackling Ice...

WE ARE HOPING TO GO TO THE FOREST TOMORROW. If you are able to bring snow gear, please do. If not, make sure you student has extra clothes!

ALSO - please make sure you child has extra clothes in their cubby. 1-2 weather appropriate outfits, please!

For those of you following along, check out the balloons from yesterday!

For those of you just tuning in (check out yesterday's blog), we decided snow comes when water in the sky get cold. We filled balloons with water to see if we can freeze water to make snow. Today was the day to analyze the results. They did not disappoint. 

After we opened each of the balloons we sat at the table with the beautiful ice balls. Some one asked "so what do we do with them?"

Excellent question!

What if we added something to it?

Baking soda?

Salt?

Flour?

Color water?

SyS remembered that when she puts salt on snow it breaks it up so she can shovel the snow away!

Our kitchen had a huge box of salt, we borrowed a few scoops and decided to see what happens. 

Being a snow scientist has allowed us to dig deeper in to all this snow. What is it? Where does it come from? Can we change snow into something different? What weighs more, snow or ice? Ice or water?

Have a wonderful Thursday! 

Where do you think snow comes from?

 Do you know where snowflakes come from? For our weekly "what do you think?" question, we asked "Where do you think snowflakes come from?"

It comes from the clouds. 

From up in the sky. 

From the mountains, when it's time to snow it blows off the cliff. 

From the pond, then the water goes up and it gets cold and comes down as snow.

Snow falls then a big pipe sucks it up and it falls down again. 

Birch room was so thoughtful about where snow may come from. Some used observation and experience, others have read books or watched videos. We put our brains and decided that snow comes from the sky when the water freezes. 

Is that what happens when water freezes, it turns to snowflakes? How can we find out?

To test this theory, we filled several balloons with water and left them outside. We checked after lunch, no snowflakes. We will check again after rest!

What do you think will happen? Will our balloons make snowflakes? Are you a snow scientist too?

All about choice

Choice is a huge part of what we do at Ambrose. Choice gives students the chance to feel a sense of control, to feel empowered, and to feel as though they are contributing to our classroom community. Throughout the day we provide many opportunities for choice. Sometimes we give two choices, sometimes we ask what a student thinks, some time we even give choice as to where we will play for the day. We even use choice as a behavioral support when things get rough. (Have you heard of Therapeutic Limit Setting? If you are curious, check out this link.) 

Yesterday and today we asked the class whether they wanted to play outside or inside. Most chose outside, a few wanted to stay in and explore our new invitations. 

Check out all the fun ways our inside friends explored today. 

Stay warm. Be well.