Good Morning Everyone,
We had a great week last week!
It was full of action and activities as you will see by the pictures.
We are continuing with our Forces unit and are looking at pulls and pushes and are reinforcing Newton's first and second laws by doing many hands on activities. We joined Ms. Applebees class to make the three little piggy houses , one out of paper and tape, one out of wooden blocks etc, and one out of straws and foil and clay. Then Ms. Applebee and myself tried to blow them down!! The children worked in cooperative groups between the classrooms and really showed ingenuity and creativity in their structures. They are very much enjoying this hands on unit. We have more experiments planned!! If anyone has the little water balloons at home that they might want to share...we could use about 50 for our next experiment.
This last week also brought a visit from Ashley Spires. The children were very enthused by practicing her style of drawing and have spent much of their free time drawing just like her. I particularly enjoyed their sketches of the doggy and his pee puddles..hahaha... On this day many of the children came dressed up as a book character. It was a fun day.
On Friday we also had a visit in by Nikoo from SPEC. She came in and we transplanted some broccoli, kale, and brussel sprouts out in our garden. WE also hilled our spuds and thank you to Matt for taking it out to our garden outside. We spent this time also talking about gardens and what we would plant into our dream garden. Their gardens look delicious!
Of course we did lots of art around Earth Day. WE really spent time talking about our lovely Earth and how lucky we are to live on such a wonderful planet. And that it is our job to look after it and care for it! I hope you all had a great EArth Day and did spend some time outside embracing it!
Finally Im just going to throw it out there one more time....
if anyone has a small clean area rug that they would like to donate to our class (around 6 x 5ish) I have a perfect area for it!
Enjoy the pictures and the rest of the weekend!
teri
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| cooperatively working on our measurement unit |
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| Where's Ms. Taylor?? |
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| More cooperative work...practicing our catapults with Mario! |
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| The children created games using their made catapults and pom poms. |
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| Casper uses his costume parts to create his and Alisha's game. |
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| working on our booklets...as all scientists have to keep track of what they are doing! |
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| Building their house of sticks. |
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| Building their houses of paper! |
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| Building their houses of straw. |
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| On Tuesdays we continue writing our poems in the library with Mrs. Whitelaw. |
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| They did an amazing job! |
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| During our Free play on Friday the children teamed up to create more games using their catapults. |
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| Our potatoes are gone, but we have our transplanted tomatoes waiting to grow big and strong. |
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| The little paper people were done with our Buddy class! |
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