A Week of Winter Exploration and Peace!

We  made a collaborative web, or snowflake, in our morning meeting this week. Look at all the connections!










We had the chance to be outside this week in the cold, too; exploring signs of winter, looking for ice, and for creatures that are adapting, migrating, or hibernating. We noticed a lot of little mouse holes in the field, and we know that mice adapt and look for food all winter.

The big question was, how does this ice happen? Some children thought it might fall from the sky, others thought it was pushed together. We'll be learning about it all soon!

 And we learned about snowflakes right from the source! catching snowflakes on black paper, we look closely with our eyes or with magnifying glasses.

But it's great to use all of your senses to explore snowflakes!











In other news, we finished up special Peace Presents for our 4/5 buddies and worked on our Words of Peace bulletin board in the classroom. When we asked the children what Peace meant, they had very different wonderful answers. Here are their thoughts-see if you can match them to your child by visiting the classroom!

• my family loves me
• you can build again
• you can be calm
• you can play with me if you want to
• peace is no taking something
• peace is when someone is a comforter
• don't take anything from other people
• when someone takes something you ask "can I please have it back?"
• when someone is sad you can help them
• if you have a diamond in your hand that someone doesn't have you can give it to them
• if your best friend is not here you can play with me
• you have to share
• you can lay down and rest
• you can play a happy game that somebody likes and you can say "you can play with me"
• being quiet
• peace is quiet

deep deep thoughts from deep deep thinkers

My

We have continued with our work with the book Extra Yarn   and had a knitting visitor who showed us how to make pom poms and let us explore her knitting.

 Blocks are always a part of our story in the classroom, and every day we see more collaboration( or we work towards more collaboration).

and a special shout out to these three boys who reorganized all of the dress up area on their own!

Until Next Time,
Michele