A Castle in our Classroom

After reading the Robert Munch book "The Paper Bag Princess" the children became interested in castles.  We decided to build one in our dramatic play area.  The children are having fun playing and exploring medieval times!

Making Music!

The children were creating and singing songs as they painted today! 

Special Visitor!

Today we welcomed Mr. Brendon into our classroom to sing and play the guitar.  We sang a song from the movie Toy Story called A Friend In Me. We sang a very fast version of The Wheels On The Bus?  He sang the song If I Had A Million Dollars and asked what they would buy with a million dollars and plugged their names and responses into the song.  Here are some responses:  Play dough, a guitar, snake skylander and a bunny car!  The next song was A Yellow Submarine.  Next came out the shakers as we sang the newest hit song....Happy!  The next song we were shaking to was Lie Is A Highway!  Scooby Doo song was fun!  At the end we all had a chance to choose a guitar pick and play his guitar!  What a fun time!

Wow!

Look what 4 of our friends built with our new magnetic tiles!

Music!

We have been talking about rhythm and echoing sounds this week.  Below one friend began a rhythm and the others follow what they hear.  

Other friends are making their own instruments!

Below there is a table of instruments that all have a circle!  One friend is busy drawing circle instruments!

A Busy Day!

Painting our Earth!

Building with our new magnetic blocks at the light table!

Some friends are playing in the sensory bin at the frog habitat!

One friend is making trees at the art table!

Drawing a picture of a snail someone brought in today!  We will be letting it go soon!

Some friends are using eye droppers to fill up their cups.  One friend noticed that when you put more water in it gets heavier!

Class Survey.

Braelin created the question for our class survey for today.  She brought in a sponge and a marble so we can test out out prediction!