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Week 18: June 8-12

This week we continued to talk about transportation and finished our space unit and began talking about marine transit. Here are some highlights for the week:

Kiwi creating a boat for our transportation board

Focus and Totem creating boats for our transportation board

Totem working on a boat

Kiwi constructed a "giraffe"

Kiwi constructed a "condo"

Totem is an astronaut

Doing an art experiment for the exhibition

Kiwi drawing

Totem drawing

Reading a pirate book at circle time

Lucas and Totem in the school bus

The class singing, The Wheels on the Bus

Friday is pool day

Lucas likes swimming

Kiwi likes swimming

Totem likes swimming

Totem doing mark making on paint bags

Lucas finishing the picture

Kiwi finishing the picture

Week 17: May 25-29

The class went on a second nature walk, this time with their own checklist of things to look for. We found every item!

The class getting ready for their nature walk

Totem and Lucas on a nature walk

Lucas and his clipboard

Looking at the water fountain 

Porsche decorating his rocket for a science experiment

Kiwi is proud of the rocket he made. He added a window for each of his classmates

Kiwi shows Porsche how to use tape

Lucas cooking rainbow rice in the sensory bin

Kiwi cooking rainbow rice in the sensory bin

Doing balloon propelled rockets outside

Propelling Focus' rocket

Week 16: May 11-15

This week we began talking about space and space travel through discussions and activities about planet Earth, the moon, stars, and night sky. The class also had a chance to use construction to make a vehicle of their choosing. Here are some highlights for the week:

Talking about stars and constellations

Lucas making a marshmallow constellation

Totem making a marshmallow constellation 

Porsche making a marshmallow constellation

Focus making a marshmallow constellation. His constellation ended up being 3-dimensional! 

Focus making a train

Helping Totem make a car

Kiwi making  a music box with a wheel

The class working on their transport

Lucas making a train

Learning about collages 

Kiwi making a blue collage that later became a hot air balloon 

Focus cutting and experimenting with plastic

Lucas making a collage 

Porsche making a collage

Focus' constellation number sequencing activity

Week Fifteen

This week we finished up our unit on animals, as we completed several activities about animal size and habitat using role play, puppets, read books and did animal sensory play. My class also helped to prepare for next week's space theme by painting and helping to construct a rocket ship! Here are some highlights for the week:

Setting up for animal mud time with shaving cream, sand, and animals

Totem and Focus mixing foam and sand

Lucas painting a golden toilet paper fish after the class learned about goldfish care

Totem painting his fish

Porsche painting his fish

Focus painting his fish

Kiwi painting his fish

The class painting fish

Totem, Kiwi and Lucas helping to paint our future rocket

Farm animal finger puppets

Kiwi making a cow

Focus making a giraffe

Lucas making a pig

Porsche making a snake

P.E. with Mr. John and Mr. Felipe

Making trains using or imaginations

Porsche's train tracks

Focus' blue train

Kiwi's silver train

Lucas adding smoke to his train

Lucas making marshmallow constellations

Totem making a constellation

Porsche making a constellation