10-5-11

Here is the question we had to answer on our morning message.

FREE CHOICE~

Today at the Lily Pad, we drew pictures of our family.

At the Creation Station, we created our faces.  There was a mirror we could use to check out our face before we created it.

Jake and Gavin enjoying the flubber in the sensory tub.

At snack today, children we served figs and fig newtons.  Ask your child which animal in this week's sound story was eating figs.

Playing school in the Dramatic Play Station.

Jack L. is the principal.

Anna and Mary work together to create a magnetic mosaic of a fish.

10-4-11

HUMPTY DUMPTY....

Today we created our own "live" version of "Humpty Dumpty".  The children built a wall using cardboard bricks.  We then used a hard-boiled egg to represent  Humpty Dumpty  sitting on the wall.  We discussed the reasons why Humpty Dumpty fell and brainstormed ways we could put him back together.

 

FLOATING EXPERIMENT

Be sure to ask your child about the floating experiment we did today!

 SPANISH

 Today was our first Spanish class with Senora Robeano.

 FREE CHOICE/WORK STATIONS

Jake and Seth fishing for numbers!

 Sophie putting together the nursery rhyme, "Humpty Dumpty", on the pocket chart in the Book Nook.

10-3-11

FREE CHOICE~

 The Dramatic Play Station has transformed into a school.

 

 At the Lily Pad, children completed a math page involving number identification, counting, and one-to-one correspondence.

 

A new game at "Math Magic".

 

 Kaitlin is doing a sound discrimination activity at the Alphabet Station. 

 At the Project Station, children worked in their Nursery Rhyme Journals....

 ...they drew a picture and completed the sentence in the photo below.

 FISHING FOR NUMBERS~

A new game at "Math Magic" will be this fishing for numbers game.  Children work to catch a fish and have to identify the number on the fish.  If the child identifies the number on the fish correctly, he/she can put it in his/her bucket.  Numbers range from 1 to 30.

 "HUMPTY DUMPTY"

Today we introduced another nursery rhyme.  We even acted it out in small groups.  Be sure to ask your child what the word "great" means in this nursery rhyme!

9-30-11

During our morning meeting, we are now asking for volunteers to read our morning message after reading and practicing it with the entire class.  In the photo below, Alek uses the pointer to point to the words as she reads them.

9-29-11

FREE CHOICE~

Using toothpicks and marshmallows to make "Marshmallow Sculptures" was an activity added to the Creation Station.

 Mia counts the Fall leaves in the counting basket.

SCIENCE LESSON

In our nursery rhyme this week ("Jack and Jill"), Jack falls and Jill tumbles down the hill.  We decided to do an experiment with acceleration, using boards, blocks, and small rubber balls.  Working with a partner, children started out putting one block under a board to make a ramp.  One child rolled the rubber ball down the ramp.  Using a sticker, his/her partner marked the spot where the ball stopped.  Children continued doing this, adding 1 block under the board each time, until there were a total of 4 blocks under the board.  Children discovered that the ball's speed increased and the ball went farther, each time a block was added under the block.