-Our friends inside the “car”

Songs we sang this week:

  • Hello, How Are You?

  • Good morning

  • Five little Monkeys

  • The Wheels On the Bus

  • If You’re Happy and You Know it

  • Where is “Child’s name”

  • Baby Shark

  • Open Shut Them

  • Mr. Sun

  • Days Of The week

  • Row, Row, Row Your boat

  • This Old man

  • Buenos Dias

This Week:

We have noticed that there has been a tremendous interest on the recycling bins. It began months ago when our friend Dillon began using the bin as a car making sounds such as “Beep, Beep” or “Choo-choo.” He then invited friends to join in by saying their name followed by “come”. All of our friends have now grown a tremendous interest. At the beginning they first pushed the recycling bins empty, after several days they gradually began adding objects such as, animals, babies and puppets as their passengers. This week our friends decided to incorporate their own bodies inside the bins! This was extremely fun for them, within a few minutes they created their own game! Their game consisted of hiding inside the bin when asked “Where is Child’s name” they popped out of the bin.

Our friends were really curious Wednesday morning when they realized the balls were no longer in the ball pit! Friends decided to integrate the animals and food in the morning. Later on the day this box turned into a car and train! While friends sat inside the box a lot of dialogue took place,

Teacher: “What are we in?”

Friends responded: “beep, beep”

Teacher: “Oh, a car goes beep beep, are we inside a car?”

Friends: “Yea”

Teacher: “Oh okay, where should we go”

Dillon: “Train”

Alejandra then pushed the box to our destination, when we got there the children were told,

Teacher: “okay friends, we are at the train, where should we go now?”

Cleo: “Super”

Una: “Park!”

Teacher: “Okay, are we going to buy food?

should we buy food before we go to the park”

Cleo: “Yea”

Una: “Yea”

After several minutes all of our friends gradually joined in and rode inside the car and/or train with us!

Making Play-Dough: Our friends also made play-dough! We first mixed flour with cream of tartar, then added salt. Our friends helped pour the ingredients inside the bowl and then mix! We then voted on a color for the play-dough, purple won. Our friends surely enjoyed this sensory exploration.

Socioemotional Skills through play-dough: Play-dough provides a lot of open-ended opportunities for children to experience independent and cooperative play. In both styles of play, children are exploring abilities, life experiences, and emotions. During play with others (either an adult or child) children are learning about cooperation, collaboration, self-control, and friendships. 

Sensorimotor: play dough is a stress reliever. 


Elephant Toothpaste: For this experiment we used:

Yeast, food coloring, water, dish soap and hydrogen peroxide.

Our friends helped us mix the yeast and water, food coloring and squeeze dish soap inside the tube. We then all observed the chemical reaction! All these ingredients created a foamy substance.

Reminders:

  • 12/11: Giving Tree presents are due

  • 12/13: 3:30: What to expect: This is a great opportunity to introduce yourselves and get to know more of our BMS educators!

  •  12/13: Our holiday party will be at 4pm, Santa will be visiting each classroom!

  • BMS is closed from Dec 21-Jan 1 for Winter break

  • Also, Laura and I are doing our best to go outside everyday. We go to the park during the morning every Monday. We do try to take a walk every day.

    We are kindly asking you to bring a sweater, jacket, gloves, hat, and scarf for your child, these items can be left in your child’s cubby. Thank you!