This week in the blue room we focused on recycling. Each day this week our friends reused bubble wrap, cardboard tubes, and aluminum foil as different tools to paint with. They experimented with different textures and found new techniques to get paint onto their canvas. When we painted with bubble wrap one friend put paint on the bubble wrap first then put it down and start popping each bubble and watched the paints underneath splash and mix together onto his paper! These painting provocations lead to conversation on how we can reuse other things instead of throwing them out and that's part of recycling!
Ball maze
Using old cardboard tubes and boxes we built ball mazes. Our friends had to balance and move a ball from side to side without letting the ball fall to the ground. This was a great challenge to practice coordination and gross motor skills.
Grass buckets
This week our friends also started to learn about the concept of planting by planting their own grass. Our friends scooped some soil into a bucket sprinkled some grass seed on top and then watered them. We are anxiously waiting to see the fruits of their labor.
Next week we will be introducing the Purim holiday. Thanks for a great week. Shabbat shalom.
Morah Felicia and Morah Courtney
Felicia and Courtney:
ReplyDeleteWhat an exciting series of activities in this unit. I am so pleased with how you're both engaging their young minds in such advanced ways, getting them to think about the world around them and how their actions can affect their environment. The ball maze is such a creative activity. Shaya looks so fascinated and locked in...i can almost see the neurons growing at the speed of lighting!
Keep up the great work!