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4 Hour Class - In & Out

This week our class had one full day inside, one full day outside and one day with a bit of both! While we were indoors we:

Made some new space mud - yellow, with silver glitter

We used rollers, moulds, a masher, duplo

and our imaginations, of course!


We did art with paint and yarn

We put the paint covered yarn on the paper...

...folded the paper in half...

...and pulled the string out! 
It made really beautiful designs on the paper.
They will be hanging on the wall in the classroom - if you'd like to check them out!


In the kitchen area we pretended to have a restaurant

Adam did some cooking and also organized a
group of friends to straighten up the kitchen -
It was very neat and tidy afterward!


We built marble tracks

We played with the straws

And the Duplo


 Matthew worked on a puzzle

And, of course we did some reading!

Taking a moment for himself, Adam reads this book about the Human Body

We also did some art with chalk and water

It was interesting to see how the chalk looked different when it was wet

Noa is making a page for her book

Ashton shows the book that he made

Clayten showed us a magic trick at circle time

And on Friday, we played "limbo!":





OUTSIDE - 

We spent some time in our own sandbox 
where we found this big puddle

We had alot of fun digging in it, jumping over it,

And throwing things in it!



Ella found this lady bug on the slide - we took turns holding it gently until it flew away


Since the room was needed for the painters to finish, we went to Queen's Park in New Westminster
Where Weston was excited to see that there was a Fire Truck on the playground!

We had fun climbing on it and pretending to be firefighters

There were also some diggers

They were heavy 

But that didn't stop us from trying them out!

In the forest we got to explore - there were lots of logs of various sizes

Clayten found this "dinosaur bone"

They're difficult to see, but there are lots of mushrooms under this log.
We talked about the fact that you should never eat mushrooms that you find outside -
They might be poisonous!



Then we decided to make a house, so we collected some large branches...

...and worked together to build this nifty shelter! 
Unfortunately it was time to go before we could finish it!



We've been very lucky to get to do some really amazing out trips over the last few weeks, and now the teachers are excited to think up some more crazy adventures for the class to go on!  It has been wonderful getting to explore new places and to witness each of the children react to them! Already we have been asked "when are we going to go back to the beach?" Soon. Very soon!

Excited to go on some new adventures,
Nicole

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