Teddy bear picnic. August 26, 2015

Yesterday was a special day with our teddy bears. They joined us for circle time songs, tasting jicama (another crop), and then ate with us at our lunch time.



All our friends wanted to dance with teddy bears. The Hokey Pokey was lot of fun with both human and furry arms and legs to dance with!











Extending our exploration of crops, Teacher Thaovy brought fresh jicama for everyone to taste. We were learning about vegetables that grow under the ground. Some of us wanted to taste this new root vegetable and see and touch it.


Gia said, " I like it."






Murtaza says "Jicama smells like egg" but "It tastes like apple."

Amelia says, "Yum" and Elena said," I like it."




Cody says, "It smells like chicken."



Paloma says, "It is cold."

Our teddy bear picnic lunch... luckily it was warm and not that hot outside today!




Some of our teddy bears are bigger than we are, but that didn't stop us from dancing together!







Thanks,
Teacher Richa

Planting herbs...

We have continued with our farm theme for many weeks now, still inspired by that original petting zoo visit in June. Talking about farm animals circled around to a discussion of what animals and people eat -- plants! Plants that we grow to eat (or to feed to animals) are called crops, so we've started talking a lot about crops.

We planted lots of herbs and have been taking good care of our plants. We learned that they grow better when they're near the window or outside so they can "eat" the sunlight.




Our spring onions have sprouted!



Watering the plants...




These past couple of weeks we have been getting ready for some Pre-K work too.

We have been working on making our first names with beads, crayons, and other found items. Please come and check our handiwork on our owl wall!



Thanks,
Teacher Richa

P.S. For those who didn't hear yet, Teacher Kristina had her baby girl on July 20th. Everyone is doing well and looking forward to coming back to school this fall!

Old MacBlueRoom Had a Farm: June 2015

Hello Blue Room Families,

For the past couple of weeks, Blue Room has been very interested in farms. Our interest started when we had the petting zoo on June 10th, and since then we have been learning about different animals. Blue Room even hatched our own live duckling!






N, L and L look very happy as they pet the donkey.






The petting zoo!!





P is enjoying the barn that the class built together.






E is putting the finishing touches on our class barn.





Blue Room now has 5 duck eggs incubating. (In the end, 1/5 made it, and Quack Quack will be going back to the farm with his family.)





Blue Room is observing the duck eggs as they bounce in the water before they hatch. It turns out human babies aren't the only ones who do gymnastics before they're born!






G is decorating her duckling.





S is decorating Quack Quack's home.





Blue Room is putting the finishing touches on Quack Quack's home.





Quack Quack taking his first swim.





Quack Quack enjoying the nice warm sunshine.






G is painting Lulu's head. Lulu is the class cow.





M, M and N are all painting spots on our cow.





Can't wait to see how our class cow turns out.





Our wonderful Lulu the Cow.
Lulu the Cow can produce milk because she gave birth. (We learned that not all cows give milk -- only mommy cows do -- and our class decided Lulu should be a mommy cow.)






K is shaking the whipping cream really hard to make butter.





Starting with cream, we made our own butter and put it on toast for snack. Thank you, cows, for giving us cream to make butter!

Blue Room is having so much fun with the farm life, we can't wait to learn about more animals and learn about our wonderful crops as well. Teacher Kristina has not had her baby yet, but we will keep you all updated.:)

Hugs,
Teacher Sammy