The Robins Make Stone Soup....

The last couple of weeks the Robins class has been talking lot about Thanksgiving, sharing, cooperation, and gratitude. As part of this discussion, our class read the story "Stone Soup" and decided it would be really neat to make some of our own.

We asked that each student bring a single vegetable for our soup. The Robins brought carrots, potatoes, cabbage, corn, green beans, garlic, rosemary, and pasta. Thank you families! Miss Julie provided the soup stone and Miss Crystal brought vegetable broth. The Robins washed, peeled, and chopped all the vegetables. this was hard work, but lots of fun!

Next, we all took turns adding the ingredients to the pot...


















As we waited patiently for the soup to cook, we noticed that the steam from our soup was doing some interesting things...

Soon our soup was finished and we all got to enjoy the fruits of our labor. In the afternoon, we talked about our soup making experience and graphed whether or not we enjoyed eating our stone soup.

How fun!


- Miss Crystal & Miss Julie

Robins - November 14th - 23rd

The last two weeks in the Robins' class has been so much fun. Take a look!....

A sticky table made with contact paper and various items...

Making "November" poem books...

No green grass

No blue sky

No bare feet going by

No birds

No bees

No leaves on trees

November

The Chickadees recently recreated the house of the three bears in the back classroom. We borrowed some of their props and acted out this classic story. Each student had a chance to play a part. We had SO much fun! 

Leaf prints...

We experimented with heat responsive paper...what designs can we make using our hands? How can we make our hands warmer? 

More fun with shapes...

Cornstarch & water...such a great sensory experience!

We used coffee filters and watercolors. The robins were fascinated by the concept of absorption!

Happy Thanksgiving! We've spent the last two weeks taking about Thanksgiving, what it means to be thankful, and of course Turkeys!

 Hand print turkeys for our place mats.... 

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Tracing turkeys...

Turkey math at circle time....

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Miss Crystal  & Miss Julie

Bluebirds November Discoveries

DISCOVERIES WITH SHAPES
The KIDSPACE math curriculum has many manipulatives for children to use to facilitate "hands on" learning.  The first step in introducing the new tools is giving children time to explore the manipulatives on their own.  Look what the children discovered while playing.

"I can make a pattern with four colors.  Blue, orange, purple red . . .blue orange, purple, red!"
















       "I can make a circle."

We made Mickey Mouse!

 DISCOVERIES WITH COLOR

The children used color paddles and clear gems to explore primary and secondary colors.

What happens when you mix red, yellow and blue?  You make lots of different colors.  This activity was available for the children for many days.  They never tired of it!  The Bluebirds loved being "scientists" and making their own colors.  They were constantly exclaiming, "I made green!"  "I made orange!"  "I made purple!"  And one of our students even said with oodles of excitement, "Look, I made aquamarine!"

BUILDING DISCOVERIES

Exploration led to many discoveries with the marble maze.  One of the first problems encountered by the builders was that when the tower isn't built with the ramps going the right way the marbles have no way to drop to the next ramp. 

 Then, they discovered the green marbles were too big to go through the holes. But, the biggest discovery of all, was realizing that when you build something really cool . . . everyone else wants to play with it too.  This time our Bluebird builders were happy to share their marble masterpiece.  Many, many friends lined up to take turns putting a handful of marbles at the top and watch them race to the bottom.

Five Boys with a Plan

. . . busy conferring and building

. . . and building some more!  It might look like play to us adults . . . however, when was the last time you worked with four other colleagues to design and build a project?  It takes a lot of listening, problem solving, and relational skills, even for adults.  

I'm thinking future engineers at work . . . what do you think?

 

Chickadee October Fun

Singing the "5 Little Pumpkins" makes counting so much more fun. 

5 Little Pumpkins

Five Little Pumpkins sitting on the gate, 

The 1st one said, "oh my its getting late,"

The 2nd one said, "there are witches in the air,"

The 3rd one said, "We don't care,"

The 4th one said, "Let's run, and run, and run,"

The 5th one said, "Its just Halloween Fun."

Oooooh went the wind, and out went the light

And 5 little pumpkins rolled out of sight.

Making pumpkin faces using circles, triangles, and squares.

Chickadees - These Are a Few of Our Favorite Things

Yeah, the Chickadees have finally made it to the blog.  Here are some our favorite things to do during our mornings together.  

 Playing Play dough

Making Birthday Cakes

Practicing our cutting, while we play

Painting

Paint+Sponge Stamps+Hands=FUN

Using the Sensory Tub 

Scoop, Fill, Pour with Rice

Scoop and Pour with Water

Tracing, Drawing, Coloring

Using a template to make a dragonfly

 Counting

Counting Pumpkins

Lining Up and Counting Bears

--Ms. Rachel and Miss Katie