Happy Friday!
Our week was full of new project and curriculum ideas! As we brought in nature items, glow in the dark stones, and a book about space travel the children began sharing their knowledge of the earth and it's living creatures, space and gravity, and stars and light.
Check out our earth, space and star explorations from the week!
Earth
To further explore the earth and it's elements we took a trip to the Washington Market Garden. We collected rocks, flowers and snail shells in our observation boxes. We also worked very hard getting our spring window display ready. Check it out at pick up and drop off! The Pre-K and 2A classes are so proud of their work.
Space and Stars
The children have so much knowledge about the earth and how it fits in to the larger solar system. We discussed how planets move, which planets we know, how the earth moves around the sun, and debated over whether or not the sun is a star!
Earth Quotes:
"A fireball will come to the city if you aren't kind to the earth, and if you are kind to the earth a fireball won't come" -James
"One side is water and one side is land" (earth) -Calen
"The moon goes to the earth" -Cooper
"At the farm I got stinged by a bee because they aren't honey bees, they are apple bees. That apple farm is good for earth and apple bees." -Grant
"I noticed at the lake that there's driller bees and the driller bees drill through wood" -Ben
"When one side of the earth is sleeping and the other side the people are playing, so when it's night on one side it's day on the other side" -Cian
Space Quotes:
"There's planets like mars and ernes" -Calen
"Moon and sun go up and down (moves hands in opposite directions)" -Cooper
"There's rocket ships that carry people inside" -Grant
"It's dark in space" -James
"Constellations are pictures in the sky" -Aayush
"Stars are really really really bright" -James
"Constellations can be a letter like R, or a word" -Grant
"That constellation (big dipper) looks like a upside down kite" -Cian