Everything starts from a dot.
~Wassily Kandinsky
Miss Sarah was back this week teaching us all about The Giant Panda. She brought in a live bamboo plant and one that has been cut and dried. We discussed how there were similar and different traits of the plant. It’s hollow! That’s where it stores the water the Panda’s drink when they bite into it.
We also talked about how much food the Panda eats…40 pounds of bamboo a day!!! That’s a lot of food, as much as most of our Preschoolers’ weigh! We certainly had trouble picking up that much weight.
The cut and dried bamboo was smooth and hollow. We did a lot of science discovery with our senses!
Next up…practicing our balance! It took a lot of muscle control to balance on the board like a panda balances in the tree in order to eat and sleep.
Science with Miss Sarah is the best!!!
We continued our “Owl Week” by reading “Owl Babies” and making our own paintings of the three owl babies in the story. We also watched the Owl Babies video. {link listed below}
“Play allows children to use their creativity while developing their imagination, dexterity, and physical, cognitive, and emotional strength,” according to the AAP report. It allows children to explore the world, practice adult roles, and gain confidence. And it improves children’s social skills as well, by helping them to “learn how to work in groups, to share, to negotiate, to resolve conflicts, and to learn self-advocacy skills.” *
* information taken from http://www.parents.com/fun/sports/exercise/the-importance-of-play/
This week we are continuing our study of nocturnal animals by studying OWLS! I absolutely love teaching science and giving your children the chance to explore the world around them and the creatures that live in their world! After reading a book about owls and looking through a non-fiction book with pictures of real owls, we discussed what owls might eat. We talked about how an owl’s feathers are designed to make very little/no noise so they can swoop down on their prey without making a sound. I explained to the children how an owl cannot digest things like bones and teeth…so they regurgitate it, creating what we know as an “owl pellet.” I showed the children an owl pellet, and I carefully opened it so they could see the bones, teeth, and fur of the little creature the owl had had for dinner. {might sound gross…but we thought it was awesome!!!} Check out the photos from our group time!
In one of our small groups, we made our own owls! Check out the fun we had as we made them!
Today we read “Autumn Orange” and found lots of orange items inside.
Later we explored the color orange in our discovery tubs.
We also combined last month’s color (yellow) with this month’s color (orange).
Our Language and Vocabulary for the month is working with the words on and off. In this spider themed activity the children placed spiders on the spider web and took them off.
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