Fun,
Fun, Fun Week was filled with
"fun" learning activities!
The children experimented with eye
droppers and colored water to create new colors.
They strung Cheerios,
pretzels and beads to make necklaces.
They requested a return of our
special pop corn popper. Watching the
pop corn pop is almost as much fun as eating it!
At Story Time they listened to felt board
fairy tales, and stories from their favorite author, Kieko Kasza.
A return visit from Baby Mikka was an
additional highlight of the week.
Perhaps most fun of all was our field trip to the Bethlehem Town Park Playground. The weather was nearly perfect, and the children had a "perfectly" grand time!
Happy Summer Birthday to Pradun, Rowan, Tommy and Sammy!
Looking
Deeper: Exploration and Learning through
Play
This
Week let's take a closer look at the "fun" of play!
As
mentioned above, this week was filled with a wide variety of activities, some new,
some back by popular demand, but all Fun, Fun, Fun! One characteristic that these activities had
in common was the fact that they were multi-layered in skill focus, and
provided the children with a "review" of many skills and facts that
we focused upon over the course of the year!
The
children excitedly mixed colored water every day this week and never tired of
creating new colors. They experienced
this activity as playful and fun, but as is always the case with play, it was
so much more! Manipulating an eye
dropper was a new learning experience for many of the children.
They spontaneously reviewed and exclaimed
that blue and yellow made green, that red and yellow made orange, and that blue
and red made purple. Additionally, Spanish
was utilized from time to time as a child was heard to exclaim; I made verde....... anaranjado.......morado!
Stringing
Cheerios and pretzels is a fun fine motor activity that quickly morphed into a
Math lesson as the children began counting the number of Cheerios and pretzels
that were on their strings, and discerned who had more and/or most.
Subtraction came into play as the children
began eating their necklaces!
Stringing
colored beads provided experimentation with Math concepts of greater complexity
as the children instinctively began to form patterns with the colored beads!
Science
concepts were reviewed as we talked once again about how and why a kernel of
corn expands when heated and eventually "pops," turning into
something delicious! Before we knew it, we were discussing Social Studies as the
children remembered and articulated that the Native Americans made pop corn
while sitting around their camp fires!
The
children demonstrated their knowledge and love of literature as they requested
their favorite stories by a beloved author!
Have a fun and restful weekend!
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