The Bouncy Castle
It was a short but very enriching week this week! We accomplished a lot of valuable project work and started to uncover a new interest that we will try and investigate further: Bouncy Castle. Chase has been talking about bouncy castles for a while, but the idea is catching on. When we took out clay to work with, everyone started adding recycled pouch caps and straws and talking about how it was becoming a bouncy castle.
“This is the light for the bouncy castle.” - Aris (the small stairs looking piece of clay with pouch caps that is on the side of the main block of clay).
“Those are the bounces for the bouncy castle. And these are the strings of the bouncy castle. They come up and down and I saw these at the bouncy castle.” - Antoine
“People go inside!” - Aris (he moved his hand through the “strings” to demonstrate).
Clock Making
Continuing our woodworking project, we built a clock this week! Everyone took a turn painting a section of the clock, and then we worked together to attach the three hands of the clock. We popped in a battery- and voila! We have a 2A made functional clock for our wall! Today everyone took turns admiring the clock and trying to read what time it was.
“It’s four o’clock!” - Cleo
“It’s moving!” - Chase
“It’s working! The other one is broken. It doesn’t work now. We have this one!” - Antoine
Our next wood project will be the tool caddy - the third item we voted for after consulting our woodwork project book.
Specialists
Diane made “Patriotic” smoothies with us using blueberries, strawberries and bananas with a little coconut water.
We took big kicks and played red light - green light with Coach C during Soccer
Mr Andrew sang us “Never Feed a Yeti Spaghetti” and sang ABCs, Twinkle Twinkle, Slippery Fish and Fire Truck song with us
Other 2A Work
Creating self portraits using loose parts (This encourages the concept of representation, facial part awareness, creative thinking, counting, and self awareness).
Cooking for this week was Spinach Corn fritters - six out of seven friends tried and seemed to enjoy them!! We called them green pancakes.
Painting and drawing the characters from The Three Little Pigs // we really love this story at the moment and want to dig deeper to see just what about the story is captivating to our 2A audience. // The drawings showed that we are particularly interested in the Big Bad Wolf and the way that he huffs and puffs the houses down.
Guessing game during circle time. Can you guess how many gems are in the jar? There were three gems, and the majority of children guessed 3. We will continue to play this game to understand quantity and counting.
Obstacle courses // our gross motor muscles were happy this week as we challenged the children to move in different ways to complete obstacle courses in the gym.
Reminders
Coffee Chat w/ Chloé on Playground & Playdate Etiquette on Wednesday, Feb. 26th
We are closed on Friday, March 6th for Staff Development
We are closed on Friday, March 13th for Parent Teacher Conferences // SIGN UP HERE
Parent’s Night Out Thursday, March 19th
Literacy Week is March 23-27 // We will have a class wishlist to shop from and donate to the class, and we will have parent and family readers coming in each day of the week.