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

Check out this week's song!

Week 12: Beginning of Term 3

This week we dove right into the beginning of Term 3 as we continued to discuss animals and their environments. 

NB working together to paint a barn

Totem painting a barn

Lucas washing animals and setting them out to dry.

Lucas and Totem playing with the newly painted barn

Kiwi washing animals

Lucas and Kiwi identifying animals that live on land

Lucas pretending to be a pig

Kiwi pretending to be a snake

Sorting land, water, and air animals

Totem using scissors to find "what is hiding in the grass?"

Lucas using scissors to find "what is hiding in the grass?"

Making impressions of tigers and zebras

Hanging our work to dry

Focus making zebra stripes

Lucas and Totem making tiger stripes

Focus making a parrot for our bulletin board

Porsche making a parrot for our bulletin board

The class making parrots together

Miss Rebecca helping Porsche glue his feathers