Wednesday, November 18th

Finley made a two in one airplane with the Diplo Legos. He says "you can take off the small airplane to go faster"

On Monday, we made Turkeys out of paper plates. We used crumpled up foil to paint the plate with orange, red, and yellow. They used scissors to cut out a circle from brown paper. Then, they glued the body onto the painted plate. The last step was to glue on the eyes, wattle, and beak.

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Today, we used paint to trace our names. We talked about what letter their were painting and which letter came next. We, also, talked about what sound each letter makes.

Today, we worked on counting. They placed a gem on each bubble near the fish's mouth, counting out loud along the way. They are getting so good at counting past 10!

Crosby wanted to do some art during free choice, this morning. He drew different shapes on his paper and then cut them out. 

After snack, we shook our sillies out and did some turkey dances. We had so much fun being silly with our bodies.

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Week of November 9th-13th

 

We have enjoyed this warmer weather with lots of time on the playground. Friends had fun jumping, climbing and balancing, all over the place.

Liam did some problem solving on how to get on the swing by himself. he dragged over a tire and used it as a stepping stool to get himself up. Great job, Liam!

This week, we began to talk about Thanksgiving and the meaning behind it. We read a book called 'Thankful" By Eileen Spinelli, and then we made a list of what we were thankful for. 

Morgan worked on sorting out all the Tinker Toys. 

She used the green and yellow ones to make "spatulas".

We worked on making patters using our wooden pattern boards and beads. 

Harper S. used the colored, translucent blocks on the light table and discovered that if she put two different colors together that she could make a new color!

T is for Thanksgiving and T is for Thankful. The Explorers used a variety of materials to make this project. They started out using a brown crayon or marker to color in the letter T. Then, they used scissors to cut our the letter T. After that, they used a glue stick to glue the letter T onto a piece of cardstock. They were asked to count out 5 feathers. They then glued on the feathers, two eyes, a beak and the wattle. We will hang these at school for a week or so and they will go home before Thanksgiving break.

Morgan, hard at work sorting, again.

Liam explored how to balance with this scale. We talked about which side was heavier and how to make them equal. He discovered which side he needed to place the items in to balance the sides out.