We spent this week rowing another story with our Before Five in a Row Curriculum. We read Corduroy all week along with some other wonderful "go along" books and did a lot of really fun baking, crafting, building, making, and adventuring. You can read about the specifics here. But here are some photos:
Outside of that curriculum we did a few other fun things!
We did Gummy Bear Science using *Water, *Salt Water, *Baking Soda water, *White Distilled Vinegar. We used 4 red gummy bears and placed one in each cup or solution. We left them for 24 hours and then came back and Ellie told me her hypothesis then her observations. A super cheap, fun, and easy experiment that is really very interesting!
We made pumpkin spice orange rice for a sensory bin which Ellie and friends really enjoyed driving monster trucks through with imaginative sensory play. Ellie helped make the rice orange by place dry rice in a zip bag, squeezing orange liquid watercolor paint in the bag, and shaking it up.
In forest school this week we collected and studied lichens. We studied the three main types of lichen and collected each kind and called them by their proper species name. Ellie drew in her nature journal her take on lichen and that escalated into a picture she made of "Mommy and Daddy" which was actually amazingly detailed for a 3 year old. We hiked, read books, read poetry, and observed a painting by Vincent Van Gogh called "Undergrowth."
We of course went to dance and Kindermusik this week! Always so much fun! Ellie is preparing for her Christmas recital with dance. And in Kindermusik this week, Mrs. Rosalind personalized a very special story for each of the children. We've been listening to sounds at the door such as doorbells and knocking...softly, moderately, loudly....and this week, through a special book Mrs. Roz made, we got to see who was at the door! It was...."Ellie!!!" It was the most precious thing I nearly cried. It was unexpected and exciting for everyone! Another reason I so love this class for my Ellie girl.
Books read this week:
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