Non-field trip excitement

Here are some of our literacy centers from the week: color word puzzles (above), making signs to practice our sight words,

 and reading letters and words around the room.

 During science we used our senses of sight and touch to observe Franklin the turtle.  Everyone was really good about being gentle and quiet so we didn't scare him.

 He was very popular.  They didn't want him to leave.

Above is a video clip of a fall alphabet game we played when we had a few minutes to spare earlier in the week.  The boys decided to play again  and a few girls came to join at different times.  They did a good job of taking turns saying and swatting letters.

(Can you tell it was tropical Thursday?  There was a lot of bright clothing, though most children had lost their leis by the afternoon)

R is for rainbow

Today was brown day, pj day, Columbus Day, and Thanksgiving!

We made a Venn diagram (sorry - no picture) to see who was wearing brown, and who was wearing pjs, or who was wearing both.

We learned about Christopher Columbus during social studies.  Can your child tell you how many ships he had?  How many men were on them?  Where they were trying to go and where they went instead?

To celebrate (Canadian) Thanksgiving we talked about things we are thankful for and ate some candy corn.

But the most exciting part of the day had nothing to do with brown day, pj day, Columbus Day, or Thanksgiving... 

Our new letter of the week is Rr, so we made rainbows in art.  It was somewhat scientific as well since we made our own puffy paint (half white glue, half shaving cream) for the clouds.  

But even better than that, was the snack a mom made for us: rainbow jello!  You should have heard the oohs and aahs when I held it up in front of the window so the light shone through.  It was very cool!

 Yummy too.

 Here is what just one spoonful looks like.  Pretty, eh?  (Had to throw that eh? in for the sake of cultural awareness today)

 Soon, this is all that was left.

 1 more picture for today: some children found a 'new' toy to play with during center time today.

Twin day, and gray day tomorrow!

Mixing colors

We are having fun learning about colors...
Yesterday we made friendship paintings (each child got 1 color of fingerpaint but they worked together to make a new color).
We had a lot of fun and got a bit messy :)
Today we had a more formal lesson, learning about primary colors, the color wheel, and what happens when we mix different colors. Ask your child about the different parts. This is the first time we tried this, so feel free to leave comments (did the playdoh stay on pretty well or should we have let it dry for a day before sending it home?). Thanks to my Aunt Marian for the wonderful idea of using playdoh for mixing colors. It was really fun, despite rolling about 200 little playdoh balls last night.