This week in Quartz room, we continued exploring our new building, table top, and manipulative materials; our favorites have been the magnetic blocks. We are beginning to explore our blossoming interest in light. We will be starting with the ideas of natural sources of light, like the sun and aurora borealis. We are also very interested…
This week we were enveloped in the story of Stone Soup written by Jon J. Muth. Bennet had read it last week and encouraged us to make our own batch of stone soup. On Monday, we started our day by reading the story together. The story is about three monks traveling a mountain and come…
This week was a busy one in Shale Room! We are continuing our inquiry of In and Out. It was too cold to go outside early in the week, so we brought the outside indoors by playing with coloured ice cubes! The children had a blast using their senses to explore; picking up the slippery…
What a diverse week we have had in Sandstone! We started off by exploring different textures in making playdough and slime. One was mouldable and could be shaped by our hands or tools. The other formed a structure but melted down into a liquid substance almost immediately. What great fun we had in all the…