Ramps & Tubes

This week we began experimenting with various tubes and ramps in the classroom. Tinkering with the tubes has helped us begin to understand some elements of gravity and the nature of inclines. We also discovered what objects could fit down the tube, and which were too wide.

This is our first step toward our science fair project, which will be about the concept of Wind - much more on this coming soon as we create some exciting hypotheses!

Light & Shadow

The light projector entered our classroom this week and allowed us to begin an exploration of light and shadow. We had cellophane sheets and translucent gems to guide us as we started to see what the projector could do, but the most exciting part was our own shadows!

Light is magical. It changes and transforms every moment and leaves us surprised and excited at every turn. We were delighted to find out different toys in the classroom could have shadows, too. I wonder where this interest will lead us next!

Sensory Work

As always, we have done a lot of sensory based projects this week (and last):

  • Melting baking soda/water ice with vinegar

  • Making playdough

  • Painting with primary colors

  • Creating a texture collage using only white (and a bit of silver!) materials

  • Exploring moss and pinecones

  • Clay and seashells

  • Color mixing with blue and yellow

  • Soft modeling clay

  • Glue & Sequins

Specialists

  • During Spanish we talked about the weather and winter animals.

  • For cooking with Diane, we voted between red, green and purple grapes and squeezed our own lemon juice to go on top.

  • Soccer time had us focus on little kicks and balancing this week.

  • Mr. Andrew had us form a subway train and choo choo all around the classroom and we also sang the book “From Head to Toe.” Of course we also did our favorite- Five Little Monkeys!

Reminders

  • We are closed on Monday, January 20th for MLK Jr day

  • Eudenis’ birthday is Jan 24th

  • We will have a Chinese New Year celebration on Friday, Jan 24th, details coming next week

  • The last week in January is our Kindness week, and we will be working on activities based on kindness & empathy.

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