Peace, Smoothies and Dinosaurs

We talked about Martin Luther King Jr. this week.  We talked about the dream he had for everyone to get along with each other.  We learned the dove and the olive branch are symbols for peace.  We put all of this together and made a dove holding an olive branch and then we wrote the word Peace.  We learned a finger play about Martin Luther King Jr. and a few songs about peace.

We planted an amaryllis bulb because it stands for determination.  We talked about how determination means to work really hard for something to happen.  Martin Luther King Jr. had determination to try to make his dream come true. We'll be observing our amaryllis over the next few weeks.

On Thursday we went outside and looked at our tree.  We talked about how it's sleeping for the winter but will wake up again in spring.

Emma is our Maple Leaf of the Week.  Tuesday Emma's dad came in to class and made smoothies with us.  We each had a cup filled with blueberries, blackberries, and bananas.  We dumped our cup into the vitamix.  

Then we added water, ice, apple slices, and some fresh spinach.  We blended it and had our own smoothie to drink as part of our snack.  Yum...delicious!!  Thanks so much Emma, what a fun treat!!

Later in the morning Emma's Grandma came in to show us how much Emma's kitten, Halloween, has grown.  She also read us a Pete the Cat book while Halloween played with us!  What a great day!

We started our unit on dinosaurs this week.  So far we've heard the books Daniel's Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, and Curious George Visits the Dinosaur Museum.  During activity time we could choose to work on a large floor puzzle of dinosaurs, use play dough and try to make dinosaur fossils, play in the sand with mini dinosaurs, or build a dinosaur world with blocks and larger sized dinosaurs.  Mrs. Chyko had a dinosaur to trace and color and Mrs. Gould started a dinosaur art project.  We also have learned several dinosaur movement rhymes, we're especially good at roaring stomping, and thumping like dinosaurs!!  We had dinosaur fruit snacks for snacktime.  We tried to identify the dinosaurs before we ate them.  Ask your child at home what he/she knows about dinorsuars?