Cardinals Day

We wrote messages to the Cardinals and drew baseball items. 

     "How do you write the logo?" -RJ 

         Ms. Lauren helped with tattoos and painting.

              So much laughter and fun... 

                      Practicing gross motor skills with a little baseball 

                 Look at those stances. 

           Here's to a great season!! GO CARDS!!

We read the book Dinner at Aunt Connie's House by Faith Ringgold. It was a fabulous book and the children enjoyed the story.  The book was about a lady (Aunt Connie) who loves to invite her family to her house for dinner.  Aunt Connie is also a great painter and she paints new paintings for her family to view.  She also takes the time to use her painting to tell a story about famous people that her family really enjoys.
After reading the book, the children were asked if they could invite anyone to dinner who would it be.  The response were very intriguing. Here are their responses:

Nora -  Barbie
Claire - Elsa and Anna
Malcolm - Stephen Curry, Michael Jordan, and Lebron James
Carter - Army
Caitlyn - My new neighbors
Lily - Mom and Dad
Charlotte - Taylor Swift
Remi - Lionel Messi
Megan - Ms. Heather and Ms. Juanita
Morgan - Her soccer coach
Eliza - Adele
Parker - a train conductor
Ryan - Silento producer of  "Whip and Nae Nae" song
Patrick  - Donald Trump
Wyatt - Ms. Juanita and Ms. Becky
Christian - A Knight
DJ- Ms. Alyssa

Ms. Juanita - The Obama's
Ms. Heather - Bruno Mars and Ellen Degeneres
Ms. Margie - Tom Hanks


Wow! What a wild range of people our children feel  are important.  I would love to be at that dinner and hear all that took place.

Reasons on where "WILD" should move

The children represented their ideas and thoughts of whether the playscape 

or the grassy hill would be better to move "WILD" 

"I think the playscape because there is enough space and it's very big." -MG

"I think the grassy hill because we can tie it to the trees and 

string through the holes." -CG 

      CD replicated the picture of the playscape below. 

       "I think there is enough room." -CD 

"We can use the holes to put the string through on the grassy hill." -NZ 

  "There are no plants in the way on the playscape." -MR 

An orchestra performance!!

"Connect it to this." -PW

A new addition to the sensory table was added this week along with the water. Much conversation took place about different ways to connect the "pipes" together as the children manipulated the materials in a variety of ways. 

           "If the pipes break, the water and oil come out." -RJ

           "We need one more scoop." -MG 

"Don't put that on there, it's overflowing." -MC 

            "We have to keep water in this ring." 

          "Its going down, around, that way in the circle, and back around." -DW

Beautiful Observational Drawings

Look at how many special views one Spider Plant can have when you have little eyes draw what they see.  

How Beautiful!

Observational Drawing

The Spider plant was moved in the classroom to a table

so that other learning could take place in its spot.  The

next morning the children drew the Spider Plant based 

on their observation. 

Natural art- using snow as a canvas

Voting

We casted our votes today on where we could move "WILD". Next week, we will analyze 

our data and negotiate between the top two spaces of where to move "WILD"