Week 5, February 2-6

This week we began a new learning cycle about animals and in particular, the life cycle of a caterpillar to a butterfly. Our book for the next two weeks is, The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, which also gave us an opportunity to review the numbers 1-10.

This week was also Science Week at ASCOT, and our class participated by learning about night/dark, day/night and by making rockets for the science lab.

This week's star of the week was Porsche, who was selected for always being friendly, and for being a diligent worker during table time. Congratulations, Porsche!

Here are some highlights for the week:

• Our class helped to make funky water bottles for our investigation station. We used glitter, bells, pasta, pipe cleaners and food coloring. The boys loved making and shaking their own bottle.

Lucas with his funky water bottle

Lucas and Focus making funky water bottles

Porsche pouring his water onto a plate. Porsche loves water!

• We made and experimented with goop (cornstarch and water) using kitchen utensils and our hands. We are learning that it is okay to get messy at school as long as we are exploring and having fun.

Focus playing with goop

Porsche and Lucas mixing new goop

Porsche with tongs in goop

Lucas feeling the goop

• Our class went on our second nature walk to look for leaves. We practiced cutting leaves to make a cocoon, like the one in The Hungry Caterpillar

Lucas cutting leaves

Miss Rebecca helping Porsche cut leaves

Our class cutting leaves

Lucas pasting the leaves he picked into a cocoon 

• Our class made masks to help us learn about the differences between light and dark, and night and day

Lucas with his mask

Focus painting his mask

Porsche painting his mask

Painting our masks together

Mr. Golden Sun song

Lucas wearing his mask

Porsche wearing his mask

Focus wearing his mask