November 30th

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Today the children explored how to make a push and pull. They added water to the bottles and noticed an increase in speed. Later while outdoors, sledding the children connected what they learned this morning about how when sledding their body can pull them down the hill.

November 29th

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Today we explored a new nursery rhyme. 

As mathematicians, we connected the rhyme with counting order. We practiced counting forward, backward, and we worked on numeral writing and numeral ID. 

The children did a wonderful job using unifix cubes to measure all of the different webs.

November 19th

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Today we learned a couple more new rhymes and then created a spider traveling up a water spout.

We explored numbers 0-11 and 11-20. We are thinking about what number comes before and after a number 0-21.

We are recognizing acts of kindness and being kind to our friends.

November 18th

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Today we explored a push. We discovered that a force causes an object to move. A pull is a force that causes an object to move towards the person pulling the object.

November 17th

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Today the children were able to see Salty the Snow Plow! 

The children are enjoying exploring the different ways that objects can move and thinking about what makes things go fast and slow.

November 15th

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Today the children recited nursery rhymes. They listened for the rhymes and then produced them.

New letters this week are x and y!

November 12th

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Today we were cartographers and created maps of where forest animals live in the world.

We had fun counting forward and backward and writing our numerals 1-20!

November 11th

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Today we read a wonderful story about kindness. We thought of ways that we could be kind to each other, nature, and the world.

Later we created drawings of an action we could do to show and express kindness.

As we explored outside this morning we noticed things we could do to care for nature.

November 9th

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Today we explored outside to find evidence of where squirrels or other animals might have been. Look here to see the Mystery Science we watched.

The children created beautiful scientific drawings of these unique creatures in their habitats too.

November 8th

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Today we explored beavers and thought about why they build dams. Look here to see the Mystery Science video that helped us explore this idea.

We created scientific drawings of these unique forest creatures and included labels like Gail Gibbons does in her books.

We explored letters v and w today as well. 

November 4th

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Today we explored a nocturnal animal, the bat. We read about how bats like to move at night and eat insects.

We created our own scientific drawings of bats inspired by the book Bats, by, Gail Gibbons.

We are exploring 2 dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes this month. Please share a 2 D or 3 D shape you find in your home or outside in nature with us.

November 3rd

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Today we read another wonderful story by Gail Gibbons. Her books are filled with great information and she also uses labels with her illustrations to help the reader understand information.

The owls that the children created are detailed, colorful, and informative.

It is wonderful to see such creativity.

November 1st

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Today we began exploring the animals that live in forests. We created a list of animals and will be exploring where they live and what the forest is like where they have their habitat.

We created a list of animals we are curious about and will investigate.

Today we began exploring 2 and 3-dimensional shapes. Look here to get the App for free. It is called Geoboard.