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Mar 07 2012

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Anybody sew out there?

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Hi!  In our class right now, we are making space suits to go along with our space project.  We are hoping to “blast off” next week, but I do not sew or have a sewing machine to complete the space suits.  I was wondering if anyone out there could help us out by taking the space suits (22 in total) (they will be pinned and ready to go) on Friday after school and sewing them over the weekend.

We really appreciate any help as it will help us get even more in the spirit of blasting off!

Mrs. Bucher and Mr. Nored

 

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Mar 01 2012

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Worms

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This is going to be hard for me to resist and hard for me to forget.  Lucas

This quote brings so much warmth to my heart. These words were spoken by Lucas during our worm dissection with the wonderful Mrs. Grotjan and Miss Robison. Lucas’ words embody the essence of Reggio inspired, project based learning and what our goal here is at the Lab School- facilitate a love of learning. Today, our studio teachers gathered small groups of friends to engage in a detailed worm investigation that included a dissection. It proved to be a fascinating and captivating experience for all involved! Tomorrow, more friends will participate in the activity. I can’t wait to see what about the investigation interests them and what observations will come. More documentation on this incredible experience is coming.

The worm is captivating!

Messi and Cameron work as scientists.
Hutton investigates.
Journey and her worm.

 

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Feb 28 2012

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Growing, Growing, Growing! (and Grass People!)

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Exploring our new sensory table material.

“Mrs. Argus- a flower!” Hutton
Cameron and Kaitlyn do drawings of their grass heads.
The grass heads are getting some sun.

What a fabulous day. We have a new material to explore in our sensory table- dirt! We are also becoming familiar with some gardening tools while we play with this. Our friends were also enjoying doing observational drawings of the many plants and new growth around the room. Hutton even pointed out a blossom on a plant that has been in our room quite a while! Perhaps we will look into why this blossom just sprouted recently. We have also created grass people. These people look like heads that have been stuffed with pine shavings and grass seed. We dipped them in water and placed them upright on a sunny table in our room. We are hoping the grass will grow and look like hair! Each day, it will be the kids’ responsibility to document what has happened to their “head” and draw a picture showing any changes, just as a scientist would.

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Feb 27 2012

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A Seed is Planted

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We discuss creating a cutting with one of our favorite plants!

Cameron and Maggie help plant our new cutting for preschool.
Monica shares her book from writer’s workshop.
Miss Schmidt reads A Seed is Planted to us and our preschool friends.
Kaitlyn presents our cutting to the preschool.

Last week, we read a story called A Seed is Planted. This is the story of one child who starts a chain of giving by creating a small clipping of a sapling. The children were engrossed with the idea of how just one seed turned into many. We read it again today and together, we created cuttings of several plants in our own room. Carriea then suggested something special.

We can take a plant and give it to other people and it might grow! Carriea

We can take it and break it in half like in the book and keep doing the same thing over and over again. Aidan

The one seed is going to grow a lot, and we made another one. Messi

Their buckets are going to explode! Angela

It feels good to fill buckets. Carriea

During writer’s workshop, Monica created a book called, All About Planting a Garden. Inside, the story read, “To plant a garden, you need to get seeds, water, and sunlight. And when the plant is done growing, you can give it to somebody. And the flower is bright like the sun.” After sharing, Michael exclaimed, “It’s just like A Seed is Planted!”  

Later this afternoon, we decided to put Carriea’s idea into action. We went down to the preschool room and shared our story and cutting with them. The kids remarked how good it felt to share our plant with the preschool. It was also a nice way to reflect on some of our newly learned knowledge of how to take care of the plant and answer some of the preschooler’s questions about plant growth in general.

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Feb 27 2012

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Friday Happenings

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Sascha brings in red wiggler worms from home. Her and Miss Schmidt add them to our bin!

Harper has a new mailbox! It is filled with mail.
Journey reads a beautiful writing about plants and herself.
Sascha draws what she sees inside the compost.
Da’Sean does an observational drawing of our compost bin. He is looking for any changes that have happened over the week.

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