Our classroom kids have always been fascinated by cracking and feeling both the inside of the egg and its shell. This was the perfect week for them to explore and work with eggs and put their interest into action!
Our week started with egg dyeing...
We added water, vinegar, and the color dye pill and watched the water turn into lovely colors!
Friends using their 'bestest' fine motor skills picked their color egg from the egg coloring basket with a special picking tool...while other friends waited for their eggs to turn darker as they figured out that if they left them in for more time, the darker they got.
Friends at the other center were working to decorate their colored eggs with fancy sleeves and stickers...
Later during the week we did the experiment about 'walking on eggs'. We first did weight experiments to know which could be the toughest part of the egg and soon learned that it was the top and bottom. We placed heavy books and wooden blocks on the eggs and piled them on as much as we could. Guess what? Not a single egg cracked! Children sighed with amazement!
Now that we knew which was the strongest way the eggs could hold pressure, we tried to walk on them. Some friends guessed that we are heavier than the books and blocks so the eggs might crack if we walked on them. There we went to check our hypothesis...
Whoo...friends were astonished to see the strength of these fragile eggs...some even tried to hold the two ends of the egg with their fingers and squeeze, it still did not crack. The tough eggs were passing every test!
However, we spoke about the sides that are very fragile and can crack easily. Most of the friends did understand this distinction after the entire experiment.
One of the other egg activities we did was to create sparkly eggs. We read a story about the goose that laid golden eggs, and everyone wanted to make golden sparkly eggs...
We mixed glue and a little water...friends tossed fake eggs, that looked so authentic and real, into the glue mixture in the red cup and poured tons of sparkles into it to be able to sell it for a higher value to parents ;) Parents, hope you all paid some good price for those ;)
Additionally we did a cooking project related to carrots. We made special orange carrot shaped cookies and dug them into dirt to enjoy them later as bunnies!
Making the orange sugar cookie dough...
Rolling the dough into carrot shapes...
Adding basic elements of the carrot look - pointy down, wider top, the fine lines etc...
L concentrating on her carrot details...
Making the dirt by blending Oreo cookies...children couldn't believe how real the dirt looked and all decided to trick their mommies and daddies that they are going to eat real dirt!
Friends filled their cups with dirt and we stuck the carrots on it...
We gave our carrots their green stems using green frosting to hold the green sour strips...
Tada...our carrot garden ready to be our yummy treats!!!
On Friday of that week we had our most awaited Egg Hunt!
We made our customized bags...
And set out for the hunt...
Time to gather up and check out our hard earned goodies :)
Letter X
We concluded our letter this week with the letter X. Friends chose to collage their letter X with x-rays and xylophones.
Some friend made patterns with X and colored them to look like diamonds! What a great thought and creativity!
We will now be reviewing our letters. For sharing, children can bring any meaningful things, excluding toys, and share what letter it starts with!
Our classroom has been very interested in throwing a prince and princess ball. We will soon be working toward this goal. It is amazing how these kids remind us each time that there is never an end to imagination!
Keep seeing you around,
Hugs,
Teacher Rashida
