We began our week by reading the book, "It Looks Like Split Milk" by Charles G. Shaw. Each page of this book was a changing white shape against a dark blue background. The children used their imagination to guess what each shape might be. Was it a cloud, a bird, an ice cream cone or just split milk? Then we talked about how a cow gives milk through the udder which we found on our toy cows. NEXT we actually milked the cow using a plastic glove filled with white paint. Then each child was able to tell what their white shape "looked like!"
An activity that the children really enjoy is matching their classmates names to their picture on the people blocks. They line the class up with the "ladybug of the day" in front and the "dessert" in the back! They are so excited as they recognize names and then search for the picture to match. Some of our classmates have the same beginning sound, so it can be tricky!
We had such messy fun designing the paper for our cow. We used horsetails and lots of other neat squishy objects and dipped them in brown, white and black paint. We made predictions of what colors we might make as these colors blended together. Then we all worked as a team to make our beautiful paper.
On the playground we are having some FUN!! The children have taken delight experimenting with the many different musical instruments. Sometimes we even have a little band and sing our favorite songs as we follow the beat! Some of us just enjoy listening.
On Friday we had fun mixing red and yellow to make ORANGE!!! We used potato mashers, horsetails and scrapers to mix yellow and red paint on banner paper. What interesting designs all of these tools made and so many shades of orange. We will use this wonderful creation to decorate our Exploratorium.
We used eye droppers to get drops of red and yellow colored water to add to our clear plastic baggies of shaving cream. Then we sealed it shut and used our hands to squeeze the shaving cream together to make beautiful colors of orange. Some looked quite like orange sherbert, almost good enough to eat!
Don't worry, we didn't eat it! We had an even better snack. We added sprinkles of yellow and red sugar crystals to our vanilla yogurt. Before we stirred the yogurt, we could already see blending.
Scientists we were, as we squeezed pipettes taking red and yellow colored water from bowls and combining it in test tubes to see the results. It was interesting to see what happened as we added more yellow or more red to the test tubes.
Working together to solve puzzles is a favorite for all of the children. One of the most challenging puzzles is the four layered sunflower puzzle, from seed to flower. It is so nice to observe the way that the children help each other!
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