Guest Speaker

This past week we had a wonderful guest speaker. Mr. Miller came from the Paramount theater to our classroom to help prepare us for our upcoming field trip to see Junie B. JOnes. It was terrific! He talked about acting, then got the children involved in acting out several vignettes from 3 Junie B Jones book. This hands on workshop was great. The children were so expressive and excited! We are definitely prepped and ready for Junie B!

Scientist of the Week!

This week our scientist showed us how to create an "ocean in a bottle" with water, oil and food coloring. We loved watching the colors mix and the oil "gallump" in the bottle. Afterwards we put the bottle in the science center, where many children are trying to mix it up! We do pretty good as long as it is shaking vigorously, but as soon as we stop things start to separate! Great job!

Scientist of the Week!

Another fabulous presentation from a resident science expert! Vinegar and baking soda makes a very cool reaction. The science behind model volcanoes was great to witness up close. Our scientist was very excited to share, and we tried out different amounts of baking soda and vinegar to see what happened. Great job!

New Year, Old Pics

Sorry about not updating sooner! Time got away from me again...of course you can never have too much of the holiday season, so here are a few more pictures. We finished our Christmas around the world tour, by making gifts with riddles like they do in Sweden, eating yule logs and making Noel door decorations for France, and making Christmas cards in the English tradition.
We also learned about Hanukkah-playing the dreidel game was fun and we loved making latkes from scratch. After taste testing we decided we liked them with sour cream followed by applesauce followed by plain. (It was a close race!)
On the last day, we came back to the USA and participated in the school sing a long, made gingerbread houses-VERY fun! The children were so imaginative with their decorations and made such intricate plans for their houses. What better way to clean the sticky tables afterwards than to bust out the shaving cream and write on the table with it! After all the excitment, we decided to calm things down by with the good old American tradition of TV! We watched the old school Grinch and clay-mation Rudolph. It was a great day to end the semester-thank you so much to our many wonderful parent volunteers!
I am excited to be back for 2009! The children seem so grown up-how has it only been two weeks? We have had a fabulous first week back!