9/6/22 - Exploring Clay

 Good afternoon, Oak Room Family!  We hope you all enjoyed your long weekend!  We've started the new week with a new material in our room, clay!  The children spent some time getting used to the feel of clay.

GP: "It feels bumpy and soft and when it's wet it feels like mud."

EmO: "Look! I'm drawing with it!"

RN: "It makes your hands dirty"

The children discussed with each other what they were making:

GP: "I need to make some more eggs"

BW: "I made a big snowman!"

FL: "I made a ball!"

RN: "I made a snowman too, I'm going to put his eye on... I forgot the eggs"

another student: "Why do you need eggs?"

RN: "For the babies"

LM: "The baby snowmen are inside"

NP: "That's where they sleep"

RN: "Now I'm making a hole to put the baby eggs in and I'm going to shut the door too... Look its hatching!"















Students also spent time thinking about sorting and categorizations today.  The prompt was "How would you sort the rocks? Why?"

EF: "I'm sorting by shape because I'm starting from tiny to big. Look at this one, it has stripes. Stripes like a zebra."

EmO: "I'm sorting the white and brown in different cups so that I know what they are.

JB: "I found a big white rock"

NP: "Is it gray? No its white."

EF: "I found a fossil!"









There was an exciting find of a roly poly on the playground


RN: "This rock looks like it has eyes and a mouth, see?"

Have a great afternoon!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Birthday Celebration and Creative Morning

Image
Good afternoon, Oak Room Family!  It is important to us in the Oak Room that all children are celebrated so we have started celebrating our summer birthday friends.  August birthdays were celebrated at the beginning of the year and we are now celebrating June and July birthdays during May.  We had a great time celebrating XH this morning with movie and popcorn! Reminder that there is no school for students tomorrow for a work day for teachers. Have a wonderful long weekend!
Read more

Lunar New Year

Image
Good afternoon, Oak Room Family! The children have been learning about lunar new year and after the children helped repair Ms Lena’s lion last week we were able to do a lion dance as a class today.  The children listened to their own heartbeats while calm and after jumping around and then used instruments to act as the lion’s heartbeat fast and slow for different feelings of the lion. Today is the first day of Lunar New Year and the beginning of the year of the wood snake. We also enjoyed small capers today and practiced a fire drill.  We wish you a healthy and prosperous new year and hope that like the snake you can shed and leave behind that which you don’t want to bring with you into the new year!
Read more

Self Portrait Work & Another Guest Reader

Image
Good afternoon, Oak room families! Today some children had the opportunity to work on their self portrait paintings. It is amazing to see the amount of growth in the children's detailed work since we first did this project in the Fall! We are excited to put our pictures on these pieces and get them displayed soon. We also had another fabulous guest reader this morning! G.B.'s mom came and read a few stories to the class. Thank you so much for visiting, Ms. Kylie! Friends had some fun in the gym this morning, too. It's hard to be stuck inside during these rainy Spring days, but we are making the most of our indoor spaces. It was a fantastic morning! Have a wonderful evening!
Read more