Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Our Field Trip to Winterberry Gardens!

Today we had a field trip to Winterberry Gardens!  We talked about bus safety and field trip rules before boarding the bus to the garden!


When we got there, we were able to explore all of the flowers they were growing.




We also got to see some cool trees, including a banana tree!
  

We had a lot of fun exploring!  Thanks Winterberry Gardens!

For all of the pictures, click here.
 


Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Happy Birthday Imagine Nation!



Last Friday was Imagine Nation’s 11th Birthday!  

On Thursday, we were given ingredients to make carrot cake cupcakes from scratch.
We were able to see, smell and touch the ingredients before we added them to the mixture and everyone had a turn to add something to the mix and we took turns stirring.



The cupcake mix was taken to the kitchen to be made into cupcakes!

Today we were able to decorate birthday hats with glue, paper, fabric and pom poms!  We looked ready to party!  




Then we got to go to our new Learning Lab and decorate the cupcakes we had made from the day before.

We got to eat them for afternoon snack!  We had so much fun at the birthday party!

For all the pictures click here.

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Shapes, Self-Portraits, and Sunflowers, Oh My!

We had a very busy week in Classroom 5A!  We are all enjoying learning the rules of the classroom and exploring new centers. 

At art center we used loose parts, yarn and mirrors to create our very own self-portraits.  We used the mirrors to find which color paper matched our skin tone, which color gems or buttons matched our eyes, nose and mouth, and which color yarn matched our hair.  We had a lot of fun creating using the different loose parts.


 


At science center we observed the sunflower that the Studio Educators provided for us for our classroom.  We used magnify glasses to look at the flower closer and even drew some of our observations!






At math center we explored with Tangrams.  We found the shapes to fill in pictures to make things like frogs and fish!






At block center we drove cars and built with arches.  We made the arches into tunnels and hills. 

At dramatic play we played house and explored all of the food, dishes and babies we have in this center.




For all of our pictures from our exciting week click here!
And we can't wait to begin next week!