Celebrating Y!

We sampled plain and strawberry Greek Yogurt today. Ask your child what he or she thought!

Frozen Hands

We have been talking about temperature and that water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius. To further explore the concept of freezing and melting, each child had the opportunity to create "frozen" hands out of a rubber glove, water and decorations. After the hands were frozen, we allowed each child to determine how he or she would like to melt his or her "hand". They had plenty of ideas including using salt, a sunny spot, the oven and water. Ask your child how he or she melted his or her hand.

Science Outside!

Today the children noticed that as they dug holes in our snow covered sandbox they would eventually hit water. The snow was very granular and many children commented on how sparkly it was.

We asked them why they thought they were hitting water. There were many theories! Eventually, they also noticed that if they poured water on top of the snow that it would quickly disappear.

Once inside, we did a quick experiment to illustrate what was happening to the snow as it melted and filtered through the layer of granular snow and pooled on top of the frozen sand below.

The children noticed that the water could filter through the layers of marbles and settle at the bottom of the jar. Mystery solved!

Building outside

Poems!

Fun with building materials.

Spatial reasoning plays a huge role in children's mathematical development. Today the children enjoyed working together to build a variety of structures.

The theatre comes to Lexington!

Today we enjoyed a great play by the Big Kid Entertainment production company.

The play we watched was called Jack and the Giant. 

After the production, one of the actors came to our classroom to teach us more about theatre and to tell us about how he became an actor. The children asked him great questions and we thoroughly enjoyed our morning.