Our Week...2-10-2016



 

As usual, we have a lot of stuff going on in our classroom.  We have been growing some really awesome stuff in the garden and today, we had collard greens for lunch straight from our garden.

 



We also have been making kale chips in the dehydrator we have in our classroom--these are really good and the kids love to help make them.

 

Naturally, we've had some Valentine's Day activities.  We made predictions about how many candy hearts we thought we could pick up in our hand, then tried it out and wrote the actual number.  Interesting.

 

 

 

A little light table fun on Groundhog Day (figuring out shadows).

 

 

One of our friends is going to be a big brother soon, and apparently he's feeling for his mom having to carry that sister around in her tummy all the time, so he drew a picture of his baby and taped it to his own tummy to carry around for awhile... (you CANNOT make this stuff up, people!)

 

Since we started our bakery project, Ms. Mandy and I have heard about almost nothing but cake pops.  Cake pops, cake pops, cake pops!  So naturally we had to make.... cake pops!  For this no-bake recipe, we smashed up snack cakes, rolled them into balls, stuck a lollipop stick into them...

 

Rolled them in melted chocolate....

 

Added sprinkles.... and of course we ate them!  Did you ever see such GORGEOUS cake pops? 

 

We played a game called "Musical Hearts" (this is Ms. Daniella and one of our friends setting it up).   When the music plays we dance and walk around and when it stops, everyone has to find a heart to stand on.  There aren't enough hearts so we have to hug and squeeze on together to fit.  I just love a non-competitive game.

 

A Valentine's Day experiment... question:  What happens if you put candy hearts into different liquids? 

 

This is what they looked like after one day....

 

We did a graphing activity with candy hearts (can you sense the theme?) charting them according to colors.  Just look at the concentration in these little faces.