Future Authors

The children created books this morning.  Using what they know about books, they used pictures, titles, author signatures, and written words.

CI -Used pictures and written words. She used letter sounds to spell the words in her book.

 Another student created a book about a party he wanted to have with his mother.

Title Page:  For DJ Party  by DW

Me my mom and baby cousin.

DC - Adds his name to his book along with a picture of a bee.  This method lets the children know what the book is going to be about.

Our future authors are starting out with a bang.  Look for future books from Birch.

Loose parts

"Loose parts are materials that can be moved, carried, combined,

redesigned, lined up, and taken apart and put back together in multiple ways."

-Simon Nicholson, Theory of Loose Parts

This is Where Live!

The  children interact with the Webster Groves area map that they traced.  They use corks to show where they lived and other places in their neighborhood.

To help with remembering the places in the neighborhood, the children draw pictures of their homes, parks, restaurants, and stores.  They use their fingers to map out how they would get from place to place.

The Language of Clay

A few weeks back while we made a plan for birthday celebrations, 

one of the children said that we would need to create something to 

hold the birthday flowers. We manipulated the clay to create bowls for 

the flowers. 

Children created a hole and pinched around the clay to 

create their bowls. 

We talked about why we needed water to keep the clay from 

drying out. 

Other children used wire to create designs on their bowls. 

                         Bowls for the flowers

                     We will be painting and firing in the kiln this week. 

Fun Sensory Play

Oobleck - which is messy play.  The children loved pouring and squeezing  this slimey, gooey oobleck through their hands.

Constellation representations

The children are exploring maps, homes, and wonderings 

regarding space and Earth. Children have been interested in 

the books about stars and what it could mean when there is a 

group of stars. We represented our ideas of constellations using 

the light table. 

What happens when you connected the dots together?

"When my mom was a kid, she had a tricycle with handles and 

  wheels." 

              The beginning of a constellation

           "I drew an airplane without wings." -MR

Thoughts of Helping

There has been a lot of talk about the floods in Texas and the hurricane in Florida.  The children have been sharing that the families need help.  They shared several ways they wish they could help the families.  They talked about building homes for the people to live in.  When asked about what a home needs, the children drew pictures then created houses that they thought the families would like.

 house designed by Layla

 house designed by CI