Neighborhood Noticings

 Good afternoon! Today we worked hard to finish our disco ball and decorations for our disco dance party on Monday. The class took turns decorating the disco ball with small jewels that stuck on the ball like stickers! We also worked on writing a list of songs we want to dance to at our disco dance party. On our walk today we noticed orange signs on the sidewalk. I asked the class what the signs meant and one friend said "They mean no littering on the ground!" another child said "Yeah, they mean don't throw your trash on the ground" We continued to walk and noticed a big bucket truck with workers trimming a big tree. We stopped to watch how they moved the bucket up and down the tree and cut the limbs. When we got to the top of the forest we sat in the shade and took time to draw what we saw on our walk. Ask your child what we saw today on our neighborhood walk. Have a great weekend!

We always stop to smell and admire the flowers on our walks!

We love to climb trees!

Rain Cloud

Today we did a rain cloud experiment.  First we filled up a clear container with water.  Then we added shaving cream and each student had a turn putting in drops of food coloring.  We waited and observed the colors slowly traveling down the cream into the water. This morning also we made apple prints and created glittered artwork.  We built with blocks, filled more molds for new crayons, and weaved with yarn. We read several books too. Ask your child what was their favorite activity at school today.

Wednesday Explorations

 Good afternoon! Today in the classroom we worked on creating our own crayons out of small crayon shavings. We have been working hard to shave our crayons this week to be able to create our small rainbow colored star and heart crayons! We also explored floam in the classroom. Our class figured out how we can shape it into a ball and roll it with a small roller. On the hillside we worked together to clean some connectors in soapy water and made watercolor artwork! Some of the class also played soccer and pretended to use the gate and a small bucket as a soccer goal. Ask your child about their favorite part of today! Have a great evening.

Disco Party Preparations

Last week we asked the students how they wanted to celebrate the last week of school and they replied that they wanted to have a disco dance party. They are really looking forward to the dance party and the other last week of school activities!  Instead of going to the forest this morning, we decided to work on our disco ball for our disco dance party, which we will have on Monday. Yesterday we started making our paper mache disco ball and other decorations.  Today we began decorating our disco ball with small pieces of tissue paper. We also played with Legos on the light table, built with blocks on the carpet, made a marble run and colored with pastels.  We also went to the gym twice. They climbed the rock wall, played with the stuffed soccer balls, rode bikes, played with dinosaurs, played with the doll house, and had a lot of fun! Ask your child what was their favorite part of the day.

Yesterday B. cut strips of paper for the disco ball while M.S. stirred the paste.

M.S., A., and B. stirred the glue mixture.

M.S. and A. started pasting tissue paper to the disco ball.

Everyone worked together to decorate the disco ball.

M.Y. and T. created a village for the animals.

Everyone had fun playing in the gym!