Looking on the brighter side

Despite the change in our routine, this week we talked about the good things that are happening while we’re home.

Noam: Having dada time.

Liv: That we moved to Florida until the virus is gone in New York. I have the pool.

Nora: More mama time.

Leo: The swimming pool each day.

Aidan: I learned how to ride a bicycle without training wheels.

Melissa: I get to have dinner with my family every night.

Do you remember?

During morning meetings, we listened to Stick and Stone, and Harry the Dirty Dog. When the story was over, we talked about who the characters were, if the characters had any problems, what the problems were, and how the problem was fixed.

This exercise is a good way to practice retaining information, work on attention span, and practice focusing.

Who is ready for a story?

During one of our morning meeting’s this week, the children were asked to create a story based on the image below. The variations in their stories show how one image can be interpreted in many ways.

Nora's Story
She (Princessy) is playing with her dolls in her castle. They she'll go on a little walk. She'll see a monster. He has horns like thorns and teeth like daggers. She'll gallop away because she's scared. She gets away. The monster goes back home. Princessy goes back home and has lunchy. She eats cupcakes, cake, and pink ice cream. The end.

Aidan's Story
Uey is exercising and is feeling sad because the arm is covering its face. The unicorn will dance next.

Noam's Story
Unicorn is pushing the snow away because it's bothering her eyes. Then she'll go to school. She'll play with the magna-tiles. She'll build a castle. Then she'll go home. On the way home she'll see a monster. She will fight with him. When she gets home she'll play. She'll hug her mommy and daddy. She'll tell her mommy and daddy about the monster, and they will say, "Oh no!"

Liv's Story
Elle is dancing because she's a musician. She's dancing on a stage. She'll bow after she's done dancing. She'll step off the stage. She's going to take a seat and see another dancer. When Elle gets home, she'll call her grandmas and papas. She'll tell them she danced at a show and they'll say, "Good job!" and she'll feel happy.

George's Story
Green is dancing because she loves dancing. Maybe she's happy. She feels like dancing because her mom asked to see her moves. She's going to go to another unicorn, named Ladybug. They talk to each other. Ladybug was drawing and Green was dancing. Ladybug drew a picture of Green and Green said "Cool drawing!"

Bubble Snakes

We created bubble snakes by using bottles, socks, dish soap, and water. The little holes from the weaving in the socks are what help to create a long snake of bubbles as opposed to big bubbles.

Let’s Count

We worked on number recognition and ordering them from 1 - 20.

Can you make a xylophone?

This week we made xylophones using water, food coloring, and glasses. Nora noticed that each glass sounded different. Aidan observed how the glasses were in order from the least amount of water to the most amount of water.

Ice Experiment

Can you pick up a piece of ice on a string? We tried it and here is what we found out. If you try to pick up a piece of ice with a piece of string on top of it, it doesn’t work. If you sprinkle the ice with salt, then place your sting on top of it, the ice begins to melt and refreeze around the string. Then we can pick it up! Some of us also tried the experiment with sugar, but it didn’t work.