Bubbles!!

"It's a pendulum that paints." - Claire

     After experiencing the pendulum with building, we re-launched the pendulum using the 

  language of paint. The children were making connections to the motions the pendulum made.

                      Read some of their thoughts below: 

          "It's spinning." 

       "It's making a circle." 

      "It looks like a spiderweb." 

     "It looks like space." 

PIZZA!!

Thanks to Joseph's mom for visiting us today. She helped make some yummy pizzas:)

Makerbot Baseball

Andrew requested a baseball to be made on the Makerbot for his birthday:)

Representational drawings of structures

      

A Special Note to You

We are wanting to make a popcorn machine to add to Blue Room's Save the Animals Bakery. The children wrote a note for you.

MOM AND DAD DO YOU HAVE THESE SUPPLIES

SCREWS, PLEXIGLASS, BOX, METAL, WHEELS

Self portrait representations using found materials

The Basketball Game

Small capers

           So much excitement at small capers- our neighbors in the

      Pink Room have some chicks that hatched earlier this week. We had 

        a chance to hold them today. 

           Green Room created art using some machines. 

Goop!!

Movement by Electricity!

A Problem with the Copier

Two times while using the copier, there were paper jams. They used their tools to fix the problem the first time. When it happened again and they realized the job was a bit trickier than they thought, they called Mr. Johnny on the walkie talkie for his assistance.

Storybooks

Aubrey brought in a copier that the kids could explore with. They were so excited to see the inside of the machine. The problem was that they didn't know how to load the paper into it.

Engineering

While some children use the pendulum to make structures fall, 

other friends are interested in testing the strength of materials

to keep the structures up. 

A variety of materials were gathered as a provocation

along with a paste of flour and water. 

            What are the children learning?

                * Problem solving skills

    *Knowledge of physical properties of objects and materials

       *Explores and describes spatial relationships and shapes

    "Blocks are strong so my building will stay up." - Claire

    "Can you get yours taller like mine?" - Carter

Let's Go Blues!

What an exciting (and noisy lol) morning we've had so far. This group created their own hockey game. They had such a great time playing and chanting,"Let's go Blues!"