We had a great day in Mrs. Mudd's class!
Look at all of these friends planning and working together as they built with candy construction or blocks!
Mrs. Haun came by to ask if she could make a donation to Five Acres Animal Shelter. Of course we said, "Yes"! She showed us a few items that she found online from the dollar store, and then each friend got to tell her what item they would like for her to try to find!
Thank you Mrs. Haun!!!
To wrap up morning meeting today...yep...that's right...tricky mouse is back! This week he brought upper and lower case letters to hide under!!! But, can't fool us, we knew all these letters and found him every time!
We headed to chapel, led by...Mrs. Mudd! We thought about what some fun jobs would be...race car driver, famous singer, or zookeeper?!?!? We learned that Adam had an awesome job. God let him name all of the animals and made him a caretaker for the garden of Eden. Now that it's spring and we have new growth on our playground, we have a fun job to do too! We must protect and treat God's earth with care!
Max returned the favorite book bag today, bringing in "The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors" to share with us! We loved hearing from Max about his favorite part of the book, and seeing his drawings. We then enjoyed hearing the story as Mrs. Mudd read it to the class.
This activity is one way to encourage the love of reading. Also, this activity allows the children (and teacher) to be introduced to new books! Furthermore, it helps to continue to build home and school connections!
It's science time, and Scientist Mudd had returned. Our friends cheered me on and helped me count as we added drops of food coloring to make red, yellow, and blue water. (the other 3 cups remained empty)
Then each child gave his/her prediction as to what would happen if the water was mixed together:
Then, back to our colored water. I was cheered on again as I added paper towels reaching from one cup to the other, creating a color wheel...
Then we WAIT!!! These experiments where we have to wait are tough...but we are learning that sometimes things don't happen right away...sometimes we have to be patient and wait! Scientist Mudd gave us some instructions before she left: Remember to look at the color wheel every hour or so and take a picture.
So...we did just that...one hour later:
The paper towels are drawing the colored water into the empty cups and the colors begin to mix!
And about 2 1/2 hours later:
We were excited to see a full color wheel created from primary colors:
Red and yellow = orange
Yellow and blue = green
Blue and red = purple
Time for small groups (centers)!
Mrs. Mudd assessed sorting skills as each friend sorted jelly beans. Most friends figured out very quickly that sorting by color was the best way to go!
After sorting the jelly beans, each friend had to count how many of each color he/she had. Then, each friend colored in that number of squares for each color, creating his/her very own jelly bean graph! We did an EXCELLENT job with these early math skills!
With Mrs. Dose we experimented a bit more to see what would happen if we mixed certain colors together using crayons! There were 3 overlapping circles. We colored one red, one blue, and one yellow (primary colors). What colors do you have now???
We improved our large motor movement and ability to listen and follow directions while dancing along to Jim Gill songs!
After all that concentrating and hard work we enjoyed large motor time on both the preschool and "big kid" playground!
Enjoy this awesome evening!
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