Week Nine: March 9-13

 This week our class did a lot of activities to help us visualize the different parts of plants and trees. We went on a nature walk, sorted and graphed different kinds of leaves, experimented with frozen flowers and plants, did some artwork, and learned a song about trees! We continued with our book, which is an adaptation of The Tiny Seed done by Jason Hickey. This week Lucas was Star of the Week. Congratulations, Lucas! Here are some highlights for the week:

• Our class did circle time and a nature walk outside to prepare for our graphing leaves activity.

Our class searching for different colored leaves

Our class listening for directions for the graphing activity

Lucas sorting a green leaf

Lucas and Kiwi sorting red leaves

• Our class made our bird feeders using ingredients that we mixed ourselves and a cookie cutter

Watching Miss Rebecca measure flour

Lucas feeling flower and getting ready to mix with Kiw

Focus feeling water and getting ready to mix

Porsche using his whisking skills

Focus rolling the ingredients into a ball 

Lucas showing Ms. Carly how to mix ingredients

• Our class "filled in" the rest of a tree picture by adding leaves, roots, branches and flowers

Working together around the table

Lucas drawing leaves

Finn pasting lots of flowers

Porsche has a black tree

Focus adding flowers to his long roots

• Our class used the sensory tray and water table to practice moving objects back and forth with spoons and tongs, and to look at the process of melting. 

Focus feeling the cold ice ball

Looking at leaves and colors frozen in ice

Making animal soup

Kiwi putting his ice ball in a boat. Will it float?

Porsche spooning ice into the sensory bin

Kiwi posing with his spatula