What's Your Bag?

In Room 4 today we talked about Containers.  How can we carry different items? 

What can be used to carry things? How do animals carry their babies? 

Making and decorating our bags

Eating the Chex Mix we made in a container

 Room 6 kids heading out to the playground

Say What?!?

Last week in Room 4 we learned about different forms of Communication.  We discussed phones - the kids mentioned how some phones "at Grandma's house" had cords on them!  We talked about sign language, facial expressions and even smoke signals.

Talking on the phone

Making our own "phones"

Writing letters to someone special

Land & Sea

In Pathways Room 4 today we talked about land, water and mountains - 

What are they like?  What can we do in each location?

Making a "land" picture and driving cars on the road

Making pictures of the ocean, including the fish.

Making our own mountains out of ice cream cones with Oreo dirt

Ocean snacks

 Room 2 Pathways also made "water" snacks today

Room 2 kids on the playground

What is the Plan?

Last week Room 4 talked about making plans and what we can build

What do you what to build?  What materials will you use?

What can you build with food?

Look at the great town the kids worked together to build!

 Room Six kids outside having fun on a great day

Where in the World Is....?

Today we talked about where we live.  We colored pictures and made "Earth Wreaths".   We put together a puzzle of the United States and discussed plants, the sun and the sky.

Palm tree snacks - where do these trees grow?

Cluck Cluck

We talked about eggs and chickens last Thursday in Room 4

Our "Chicken in an Egg" craft

Seeing what a raw egg looks like and then boiling some

"Eggs and Bacon" for snack time

Decorating paper eggs

Coloring our boiled eggs

Peeling the eggs and making our own egg salad
(the kids were surprised that the eggs were not still runny on the inside)

Visiting the nearby chickens

Knock on Wood

Today we learned about Wood

Making logs out of bread for our snack

 Painting birdhouses that are made of wood

Talking about the many items that come from trees.

Noisemakers

Last week we used our ears to listen and also celebrated the 4th of July

What sounds do these instruments make?

What does this popcorn sound like?

Popcorn fireworks pictures!

Look at these yummy Flag cakes

 Room 2 making a splatter paint fireworks picture

Room 6 kids having fun and looking adorable

People Day

It's People Day in Room 4 today!

We traced and decorated life-sized paper people

We had lots of fun making people out of Play-Doh

While making Jigglers we talked about liquids and solids, then cut out hands and feet