(Sorry there are no images this week, the uploading is not going smoothly! You can see all of our images in the January folder of our Google drive).
This was an exciting week, we made a lot of new discoveries and uncovered some promising project threads through our play. We continued to trace letters and decorate our first initials for a class alphabet that we will be creating next week. There has been a lot of interest in letters and who has each letter, so we are very excited to continue exploring the alphabet in a variety of different ways.
A new interest that has emerged is that of bandaids and booboos. One morning we had out some felt triangles originally intended for pattern making, but quickly transformed into bandaids. We applied the triangle bandaids to the baby dolls and our own bodies. Kenny made sure the baby’s booboo was covered with the bandaid, and Luca was intently putting the triangle on his toe (that was hurt a while ago). This morning we added a few other care items to explore: an ice pack, a thermometer, and real bandaids. We heard some really great language- “My baby is sick!” “The temperature in two minutes.” “Him needs a bandaid on his booboo.” Etc. We will continue to explore topics of the doctor’s office in the coming weeks and see where this interest takes us!
A small topic that came up was that of nocturnal animals. We read a story with an owl in it and started talking about how some animals are only awake at night time. Next week we will make a chart and compare some nocturnal and diurnal (daytime awakeness) creatures.
Specialists
With Diane we made a cheerio trail mix with dried peaches, raisins and craisins
In Spanish with Ernestina we learned the song “Rain rain go away.”
Coach Jojo had us using our feet to stand up cones and practice our kicking skills
Emily helped us create a song about airplanes this week during music! We hope to continue to create original songs with her.
We worked on 2 science projects this week: we learned about density and layers by pouring different liquids together in a jar. We attempted to do a science project involving milk and vinegar, but unfortunately we forgot to warm the milk so it didn’t work!
During our shared cooking project we made some really yummy blueberry and banana oatmeal muffins
We listened to a few different classical compositions to help us understand a fast and slow tempo