Going for a Walk

Today, Mrs. Nims took her small group on a walk to enjoy the nicer weather. They walked through part of CMU's campus, to the tunnel that connects Brooks Hall and Dow Hall. Along the way, the waved to people and pointed out the things they saw. In the tunnel, the children admired the paintings of nature and science.

Axel said he saw, "Two skateboards, a hammock, and buds!"

Fifi said she saw people on their walk. 

"Fish!" Said Luke.

Teaching Strategy Gold: Objective 4: Demonstrates traveling skills

Ms. Vedder 

March 15, 2016

Pine Room Fun!

The Pine room is open to children during center times. This tends to be a popular room but today, it was extra popular. Children were exploring in every area of the room.

"I'm her mom. Feeding her milk." -Hailee G.

"I clean the teeth with this." - Sumaya

"Soap. What's this?" - Fifi

"Here's your money." - Charlie

"Meow." - Alana, Luke, and Leah

"I can read this book on my own. I've read it before." - Makenna

Teaching Strategies Gold:

The Arts Objective 36: Explores drama through actions and language

Miss Hild

Worm Fun!

Monday, March 14, 2016

The worms outside sparked the children's interest this morning and continued on into their spaghetti lunch.

 "This looks like worms!" -Charlie

"Mine is wiggling" -Stephen

"Meat looks like rocks and red is the water" -Daniel

Teaching Strategies Gold: Objective 11. Demonstrates Positive Approaches to Learning.

-Ms. Peters

Rainy Day!

Rain did not stop us from enjoying some time outside today! The children suited up in their rain gear and were eager to get back onto the playground after a week long break! They enjoyed jumping in the puddles, riding bikes through the puddles, playing in the mud, and going down the slide super fast!

"Look! I'm a penguin when I go down the slide like this!" - David

"My boot almost got stuck in the mud." - Andre

Teaching Strategies Gold

Objective 6: Demonstrates Gross Motor Manipulative Skills

Ms. McArthur

Getting Crafty in the Oak Room

Today in the Oak Room children were busy painting and drawing pictures.  Some used their imagination to  draw objects that were not present in the room, others used their creativity to draw objects in the room or on  their shirt. Most of the artwork was painted to be displayed in the community art project. A few made pictures to take home or even give to a friend. 

Teacher: "What kind of dinosaur are you painting?"

Tommy: "This is a Parasaurolophus."

James: "I made a Pikachu."

Charlie: "I'm making something for James."

Pelumi: "I'm making a rainbow."

Axel: "I'm painting a pine tree. This ones a normal tree."

Teaching Strategies Gold: 

The Arts Objective 33: Explores the Visual Arts

Thursday March 3, 2016

-Ms. Hallgren

More Snow Calls for More Sledding!

Today, the children had the option to all go sledding. Many of the children and teachers helped to carry over the sleds and shovels, along with some spray bottles, over to the hill right on campus by Moore. The children had a blast getting to play in all the freshly piled snow. They enjoyed going down the hill, making snow angels, coloring the snow with spray bottles, using the shovels, and all playing together!

"Look! I made a snow angel." -Asher

"Hold on Anaya!" -Axel

"This is fun!"- Olivia

"We found ice!"- Tommy

Teaching Strategies Objective 2: Establishes and Sustains Positive Relationships

Dimension C: Interacts with peers 03/02/2016

Ms. Juzyk

Physical objects of properties and materials

In the Oak room during small group, the teacher introduced a sink or float activity. The children tested a variety of objects to see if they would sink or float. They were able to form hypotheses on the objects they chose to place in the water before dropping them in.

The cotton ball floated first and then it sank -Makayla

I think the rock will sink because its hard -Lamar

 

I think the pen will float because its small -Alana

I think the spoon will float because its small like the pen -Ashtin

Teaching Strategies Gold Science and Technology # 26 Demonstrates knowledge of the physical properties of objects and materials.

-Ms. Hall