Field Trip to the H.S. Art Room

 Mr. Borup did a great job teaching us a little bit about art.  We all got to take off our shoes and socks and paint with our feet.  We also painted with other objects.  

Mr. Borup also showed us how to make a vase on the pottery wheel.  The kids loved touching the clay and feeling it spin on the wheel.  Next week we will make our own pieces of art with clay and Mr. Borup will fire them in the kiln for us.

Letter Y- Yummy and Yucky

We made a yarn obstacle course.  It kind of looked like a web.  We each took a turn working our way through the web without touching the yarn.  If we touched the yarn, we had to go back to the beginning and try again.  We learned that a spider web works the same way, when a spider feels an insect vibrate the string, it will know it has caught it's prey.

Every week we work on writing the letter for that week.  We are all  improving our writing skills.

We dug through the snow and picked up buttons and scarves and hats out of the snow with tweezers so we could put them onto the snowman.

We also sprayed some snow with yellow and blue water to make the color green.  It has been too cold to go outside, so we had to bring the snowy fun inside.

We smashed yams.  Smashed yams makes a pretty good play dough.  :)  This was also a mini science lesson where we learned what happens when we smash yams.  We leaned that the yams have to be cooked and soft in order for us to smash them.

We ate yellow yogurt for snack and we also tried yams.  Tasting yams was a new sensorial experience for most of the kids.  Some of them liked the yams and some of them didn't like the yams quite so much.  

For part of  our yummy and yucky lesson, we read the book "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"

We had a lesson where we separated items into two piles of yummy and yucky.  We learned there are some things like medicines and cleaners that we should never ever eat because they are yucky.

Letter G- Gooey Goo and Games

 We played Red Light, Green Light.  The kids used paper steering wheels with Letter G words on them like "go" "green"  "gum".  They had fun listening for the Green Light command when they would come runing toward the finish line.  We also played Giant Steps Game, where the kids obeyed the command to take different types of steps like giant steps, baby steps, backward steps etc.

 We learned the letter G by writing it in our workbooks and we also traced the letter G on these goo (hair gel) filled bags.

 We are learning the letter G sound too.  We separated pictures that start with letter G from the pictures of items that didn't start with letter G.

 We played with different types of goo like Play Dough and corn starch mixed with water.  The kids enjoyed feeling the different textures of goo.  We learned that corn starch and water harden when you touch them and then they soften when they left alone.

We practiced measuring and scooping to see what how many half cups fit inside a whole cup.

We played the guitar a little and shared our letter G items for show and tell.

We made goo with glue, water and borax.  It was a very cool science experiment to see who the substances interacted.

 We practiced our number writing skills by working with calculators.  We wrote the numbers on graphs and practiced counting the pom poms.  We also guessed how many pom poms might be in each container.

 We cut out letter G pictures and glued them onto our Letter G papers.

We glued gumballs onto our gumball machines.  We counted them and named the colors.

Looking at Gorilla books.  We learned some interesting new facts about Gorillas.  Their skeletons look a lot like our skeletons, they often walk on their hands, their baby's hold onto the mommies for rides, they communicate with their facial expressions the way we do.

We played a gooey spaghetti race game where we split into teams and raced to see which team could fill up their bowl with gooey spaghetti first.