- The class finished up discussing feelings and emotions: they talked daily about how they felt by using colors and animals from the story "My Many Colored Days" and also etched pictures on a black background and created pictures with popcorn to express how they felt; they also watched a short movie based on the story and painted the animals in the story while listening to music by the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra.
- In science the children explored and experimented with color (particularly how to separate a color)
- In dramatic play they acted out songs, stories, and movies
- School now provides healthy snacks on both Wednesdays and Thursdays!
- Trains! Trains! Trains! was the topic for 2 weeks. After reading the "Polar Express" the kids found bells in their backpacks and were overcome with the holiday spirit; the movie theater was transformed into a train station, allowing the children to take many trips and vacations
- In art, the children worked on special projects for the holiday celebration; made trains from various shapes; and decorated scenery for their "train ride"
- At the water table, the kids experienced the smooth and slimy feeling of gak (a liquid starch concoction); they also made train tracks with shaving cream with different trains ad cars
- At the sand table they explored the miracle of magnets and learned about magnetic force- they were also asked to make a hypothesis and guess if a particular item would stick to a magnet
- They tried to solve a mystery about a man named Mr. Black and why his XMAS tree could have tipped over while he was out to the grocery store.
- At circle, they played a train game where they pretended to board a train and the kids had to find the chair that's number corresponded to the number on their ticket.
Christmas vacation!!!
