Dear Parents,
We started our week making paper airplanes. We asked our paper airplane experts (we have a few) to help teach the rest of the class. Everyone looked and listened and folded and flew. The children wanted to color their planes, so we did that for a little while. We talked a tiny bit about pilots and air traffic controllers. We went into the big room to fly our planes. See how they fly in the attached video.
The next day we drove our airplanes outside to fly. We flew them in the grass, but soon many discovered that launching them from higher places helped. To the top of the jungle gym we went. We also noticed that the windy day helped.
Wednesday was our first music class with Alex. While half the class was with Alex, the rest of us played a farm counting game: it involved goofy goats, and some animal sounds.
After we did our monthly fire drill, we walked to the end of our block to look at an apple tree that was in full bloom. We read two books about apple trees beforehand, and went to see what it looked like "for real life" as some say. Someone noticed another tree on the way that had similar flowers.
On Thursday we read about how seeds travel. We looked at some seeds we had collected and guessed whether or not they’d float. We filled a bowl with water to test them. Some did, some did not. We made a list of seeds we eat. We will add to it next week. The children debated whether a coconut is a seed or not. We looked it up. There was also a discussion this week about whether or not chicken is meat. Eight children said yes, four said no. We asked what makes something meat, and someone said it has to be an animal. Everyone knows a chicken is an animal.
Have a warm weekend,
Therese