Wednesday, October 29th

Lorien enjoying her ice cream
He looks like a poster child for ice cream in a can:)

Rolling the can back & forth, with Leilah's noggin to supervise!

"my turn!"

Mixing the liquids.

Word of the day: Infamous (English)

Iglesia (Spanish)
9:30-9:45 Opening Circle time. Opening song (“Good Morning/Buenos Dias”). Calendar time. Words of the day. Sharing time. Rain forest review-
9:45-10:15 Center exploration: Letter of the week- Journaling. Painting. Center project: Rain forest Project- Emergent trees or tracing pumpkins.
10:15-11:00 Special “I” project: making ice cream.
11:00-11:15 Story time, “I've been working on the railroad” by Nadine B. Wescott
11:15-11:50 Wash hands/Snack time/Free Play
11:50-12:00 Closing circle time

What fun we had today! We began today by reviewing the rain forest concepts, and going over what we use in our daily lives that comes from the rain forest. The list was BIG!

Sharing time was a lot of fun. Darius brought his favorite (fake) iguana, and let us all pet it. Lorien brought her "Identical twins"- a couple of dolls that look the same. So cute! We then spoke of the difference between identical & fraternal twins.

After center exploration, we launched into our science project which was about liquids vs. solids. We spoke of things that are liquids (i.e., orange juice, water, apple juice, blood) and solids (i.e., the glass the orange juice comes in, the body that houses our blood, ice cubes). To reinforce this concept, I showed them a bowl of milk (with added sugar & vanilla). I then asked them what they think would happen if we were to put the milk in a baggy, and put the baggy in a can filled with ice- they were quick to say it would freeze into ice cream, which is a solid!

We proceeded to put the baggy in the can, and the children rolled it back and forth for 15 minutes. After they finished lunch we opened the can to see what became of our liquid milk & sure enough it turned into a solid bag of ice cream! They then ate their experiment. Yummmmy!