We are always learning!

In art, Susan challenged the class to cut through different weights of material.

This was a good opportunity for some motor planning since  you have to adjust the amount of pressure on the scissors as you work.  

Everyone was  up for the task!

In Torah,  the children are making breastplates with 12 stones to represent the 12 tribes of Israel.

But what are we doing when we hang out in our room?
Sometimes we dress up and pretend to go to the mall!

Or we play in the sensory table....

and clean up those beads that "somehow" scatter all over!

We have some fashion accessory designers in the class.  Briana models her latest jewelry creation.

Here's the game we played this week.  Remember those pingpong balls painted to look like eyeballs.  We had used them earlier in the year when we talked about the different colored eyes of the members of our class.  Here, Daniel is aiming an eyeball.

If you land the ball on the blue fabric, you're in the moat and get 1 point.
In the plastic box and you're in the kitchen for 2 points. In the narrow box at the back, you're in the dungeon and you get 3 points.   It was a fun way to review some castle related vocabulary.

Patrick landed both balls in the kitchen.  His team is cheering him on, especially when they realized they would get 4 points!  We are modeling and encouraging good sportsmanship too.  Look at the other team (Charlotte..Daniel..etc) as they seem happy with Patrick's good fortune as well!

It is Qq week so of course we have a Qq related sign in twist.  Estimate how many quarters will fit on this block.  Alex's way to solve the problem is what most of us would do...move your finger along as you count.

Saul pretty much did the same thing except that he was thinking the quarter was much bigger than it really was.  

Patrick kindly said, "Saul, move your fingers closer together."  And together, the boys answered our question!

Amelia and Charlotte had a very interesting discussion as they were working.   Amelia noticed that Charlotte had so many more quarters on her block.  Why was that?  Again, listening to the questions we posed as well as working and thinking together, they realized Amelia's quarters went in a straight line and Charlotte's line was more curved.  Sometimes the best discoveries are made when we least expect them!

How fabulous to listen to our very own Govind as he plays the cello.  All the pre-k classes were so attentive.  Take a well deserved bow, Govind, and thanks for performing!