Smart Apples

This week we started our study on gardening, flowers and plants. We discussed the different types of gardens and we started our KWL chart. At art table, the children used markers to make representation of flowers, used geometric shapes to make flowers and observed flowers and painted the flowers. At block center, the children added flowers to their amazing structures. At dramatic center, the children set up a flower shop. The children sorted flowers by colors, design their own bouquet of flowers and pretended to buy and sell flowers. At sensory, the children practice their fine motor by putting plastic flowers into a colander. At science, the children explored different seeds and drew pictures of their findings. Also, the children put black beans to germinate. We learned that beans are another type of seed. At manipulative table, the children measured flowers with unifix cubes and wrote numbers. At literacy, the children work together to put floor puzzles together, spelling words and c...

This week we continue learning about exercise, human body and healthy fruit. We learned that when we practice a sport or exercise it is a possibility that we can get injured. Injury can be small or big. We learned about first aid and call 911 only for big emergencies when adults are not around. At art table, the children worked on self-portrait, making representation of x-rays, painting with Q-tips and play with playdough. At dramatic play, the children continue pretending to be a doctor and take care of a patient. At science, the children made patterns with their fingerprints and made predictions if the fruit float or sink. They found out that fruits float because the peel is designed to protect the inside of the fruit, the peel is less dense than water or light enough to float, but the inside fruit is denser than water, so it sinks. Different fruits and vegetables will also float or sink depending on their density. In general, apples, bananas, lemons, oranges, pears, and zucchinis wi...