We had a very productive week in the 2A classroom!
PLEASE BRING IN A FLASHLIGHT FOR YOUR CHILD IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY
Night & Day
Since we had talked a little bit about animals that come out during the night time last week, we explored the topic a bit more through a few different activities. First we painted with light, bright colors and contrasting dark colors. We also sorted and categorized a variety of different animals and tried to figure out if they were awake during the day or the night. Some of the animals were tricky- like deer and alligators, because they seem to be awake during both! So we put them in the middle of our sorting chart. We also brainstormed some words or thoughts that remind us of “night” and for “day.”
Night: Sleep. Lights on. Nothing. I cannot see nothing. Shh shh shh. Twinkles. Star. It’s dark out. Fox! And owls in the night. Dinner. Bath. The moon looks like a semi-circle. The moon comes out at the night time.
Day: Tubbies. Daddy says bye-bye to Luca in the day. The beach. Bus. School. Wake up. Sun. Get dressed. Morning. Raining. Cloudy. Sometimes the clouds block the rain. Sometimes the clouds block the sun. Go in a car. Sun. We can go exercise. We go at the school. Inside.
Doctor / Booboos
We’ve also continued talking about doctors, and what they do. While we were having snack the other morning, we brainstormed “What happens when you go to the doctor?”
Luca: Bump head. Doctor wash my head.
John: Check my booboo. I went doctor when I hurt my leg. I see a doctor appointment.
Roger: I get a booboo. He make sure I ok. I have to make appointment!
Finn: I didn’t go to the doctor. I get a lollipop! Sometimes the doctor gives you a lollipop.
Grayson: Stethoscope.
Riley: I go doctor with Daddy.
Barak: Two minutes.
Sloane: I get a shot at doctor.
Bellie: I get a shot, too.
Itsy Bitsy Spider
During Spanish with Eudenis, we have started learning how to sing “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” in Spanish (La arana pequenita). We are now taking up a bit of an interest in spiders! So this morning we used model magic and pipe cleaners to create our own spiders.
Other Spanish songs we have been working on: Los Numeros (the numbers), De esta forma (This is the way… we get ready for school), Dias de la semana (The days of the week), Los colores (The colors) - and our favorites mixed in!
Math - dice game!
Math is a lot of fun, and this is something we want to encourage and foster through games! This week we took out a di and everyone had a chance to roll it and count how many dots were on the top. Then we graphed the number as well. This helped us repeatedly count in a fun and exciting way. (And interesting for adults- out of the nine friends who rolled the di, no one rolled a three or a five!).
Painting
Our painting adventures continue! This week we did two different ways to paint- using the watercolor palette (which we tried toward the beginning of the year but was a hard concept at the time, now it came with ease!), and using droppers with liquid watercolor. At first it was tricky to squeeze the droppers and let go so it could fill up, but it didn’t take too long before everyone became experts.
And, we made our own paint this week! We mixed together: corn starch, corn syrup, baking soda and vinegar. Then each child got to decide what color to make their paint and helped add the food coloring. We mixed it all up really well, and now we’re waiting for the paints to solidify. They will become reusable watercolor paints! Everyone is very excited to use the paint next week.
Specialists
During Spanish with Ernestina we learned a song about having two hands
During cooking with Diane, we taste tested citrus fruits: oranges, grapefruit, and pineapple - pineapple was the winner!
For soccer with Coach Jojo, we learned how to use our feet to wake up the cones and did a lot of practice kicking the soccer balls without knocking the cones down
We had music with Emily this week and enjoyed being able to request our favorite songs