SCIENCE EXPERIMENT

Engaging in sensory explorations is an important part of infants’ development. From the day babies are born they use their five senses to explore and try to figure out the world around them. They do this by touching, tasting, smelling, seeing, moving, and hearing. More importantly, we know that infants vary greatly in their sensitivity. We decided to test that by introducing them to this science experiment. While some sensory experiences created feelings of comfort and happiness others drove infants into discomfort and strangeness. The goal of this experiment was to capture our infants’ non-verbal cues while engaging with unfamiliar textures. 

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PAPER AND LIGHT IN A BOX

This week the infants got to explore a box with light, mirror to self-identity. The infants really enjoyed this activity. At first we only explored the plain box, then the teacher added some paper, last we added lights which they enjoyed more by touching and shaking the light.

EXPLORING SELF PORTRAITS

This month the infants used a thin marker for their self-portraits. This is a great activity for their fine motor skills. The infants had more control of the marker and were able to draw more defined lines. At first they got to see themselves in the mirror and they looked confused. Then after a few minutes of exploring themselves they begin to smile and get excited. Then they started to get more comfortable drawing themselves.

SPECIALISTS

This week in Spanish class we sang a song about our body parts. Along singing the song the infants explored the snowman while the Spanish teacher was showing and naming the body part of a snowman. In music class the infants enjoyed the song slippery fish with Andrew the music teacher.

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UPCOMING

FEBRUARY

  • TOMORROW, Saturday 2/8 Science Fair Tribeca 

  • Monday, 2/10 Picture Day 

  • Friday, 2/14 Valentine’s Day

  • Saturday 2/29 Science Fair West Village

  • Monday + Tuesday 2/17-2/18 CLOSED (Presidents Day)

See you at the science fair on Saturday! We are looking forward to sharing our hard work and experiment with other children.