Winter Fun!

We worked together to make a "snow bear" on Friday. "Frosty the Snowbear" looked into our window with a happy smile!

Doctor Week II

Doctor Week continued with an exploration of our body systems and "what's inside" questions. The children enjoyed nonfiction books about their muscles, bones, and circulatory system, as well as songs about going to the doctor and growing. We measured ourselves, and made paintings that looked like x-rays. The children wrote their "band-aid" stories and a book about what they looked like inside.

Doctor Week

Doctor Week has begun! The children interact with real life Doctor's office props as they explore taking care of eachother and the work that Doctors and Nurses do. They enjoy filling out "medical histories" for their patients, and giving plenty of shots.

Our art work has focused on our five senses, sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell, as we looked at the rainbows that sunshine formed, tasted salt and sugar, touched and made fingerprint art, and played games with listening to sounds. The children enjoyed a game of touching objects through a scarf and guessing what they were.

We are earning about our body systems through books and songs, and have talked about our digestive system, our circulatory system, and our lungs. The children exercised in the gym and felt their heart rate speed up!

Words we've heard:

"This is a mask! Nope, she doesn't have a breathe problem!"

"Put your operating mask on"

"Actually, I'm Dr. Baby Dolphin"

"Look how many notes I got from the tooth fairy! Actually, I'm the tooth fairy!"

"Can you help me fix my bear?"

Until Next Time,

Michele

Fun with Pasta!

We're back in full swing! Pasta Week was a popular week of art projects, eating, and playing.

We made bracelets with colored pasta, glued pasta alphabets, and painted with "pasta colors".....

We were given some wonderful costumes for our dress up corner, and the magic continues......

Magnets were very interesting to the children. They even spun them with a little experimentation.

We spent time outside, moving snow about. The children piled the snow to make "fires" and "food"....!

Until Next Time,

Michele

Just Before the Break!

We had a busy week enjoying the snow and ice both inside and out!

We enjoyed sharing prizes from the pinata ...what bounty!!

The children experimented with large ice blocks, adding color and salt to just see what would happen.

There were many thoughts of kindness, friendship, and the warmth of the season this week!

Words We've Heard:

"let's pretend, you'll have a tummy ache at 1:20."

"there is a hungry wolf coming to town. Do you want to be the hungry wolf?"

"forty-eight-five, time to play soccer"

Until Next Time,
Michele