We kept up with our ongoing interest of sports, especially hockey! The indoor table was never idle and it was a wonderful place to see them wok as a team. There were conflicts, but it gave them a chance to problem solve and yes, they cruised through it successfully. We also got a chance to talk about how having fun and working together was more important than winning or loosing.
D brought his hockey helmet and jersey to share one day. No doubt the apparel kept the vibe going for the day!
We have two plastic golf sticks that we use to play hockey outdoors. They are so thoughtfully timing their turns and passing those to other friends one by one. This is a great skill that I see developing between them!
This week for letter M, we decorated the letter, and worked on Me and My name by making a 'Me' collage (using newspaper and magazine cutouts, chalk, and yarn for hair) and continuing to decorate our names. I truly want to make a note of how well they are trying to write their names, and then carefully squeezing glue on the written letters and sticking their favorites beads to the glue.
Few other things we did were matching letter M to the M words, and making mazes.
This week we made 'M'ac and cheese. Some said they had never tried it. Well, the others who had, started describing the food. It was a nice exchange of experiences during that moment.
I gave each of them an uncooked macaroni noodle and asked them to compare it with the cooked one. While the macaroni was cooking in the pot outside the classroom, we had some fun exploration inside. They all started to roll the dry macaroni on the table, and since it was a spiral shape, they started to talk about how it looked as it rolled. I gave them magnifying glasses and kaleidoscopes to see at the macaroni with a different dimension. They closely observed the spirals with the magnifying glass, and then with the kaleidoscope, they told me that they can see sooo many copies through it.
We even put our little macaroni in the kaleidoscope and shook it to make music!
After the macaroni got cooked, it was the time to compare.
Some of the descriptions were: It is sticky, it is bigger than the uncooked one, it tastes different, its chewy while the uncooked was hard to bite, and it has changed color (the uncooked was light brown while the cooked was cream-colored). But they noticed that the spirals were still there. How observant!
The mmmmmmm moment!
See you all next week!
Warmly,
Rashida.
