Last week the children in prekindergarten were introduced to... 

He is part of our handwriting program. 
We learn to put him together utilizing the wood 
pieces from the program. 

Mat Man teaches the children about body awareness and with the help of a special song also helps the children learn to draw a 

person containing all the correct body parts.
Mat has one head...

 two eyes,

 one nose,

one mouth,

two ears,

one body,

two arms,

two hands,

two legs,

and two feet.

We thought it would be fun to also add the details 

with our special body part stones.

Of course we had to add some crazy hair to make 

Mat Man look fancy too!!

Ta-Daaaaaaa!

We love Mat Man!!

Color Scavenger Hunt

We took advantage of a couple of beautiful fall afternoons and each class went on a COLOR HUNT. Our little scientists were equipped with a clipboard, crayon, and recording sheet to gather their data. We learned that any tool used to assist with a task is considered technology. Technology doesn't only mean electronic devices.

We discovered that colors literally exist everywhere.

 

Upon returning to the classroom, we created a chart of different things we spied on our color hunt. 

Each class also created a class book so that we can revisit the experience whenever we'd like. Who knew we were already authors?!?

We LOVE colors!!

The world is our rainbow:)

Color Exploration... STREAM Style

The full day children are engaged in an inquiry on COLOR. Each afternoon we set the tone by reading a story with a color theme. The activities for the afternoon revolve around that story and are integrated across disciplines. We like to call this Story Time STREAM.

We are learning about the acronym STREAM. It stands for Science,  Technology, Reading,  Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics.

STREAM is important because it helps teachers incorporate multiple disciplines at the same time and promotes learning experiences that allow children to explore, question, research, discover, and exercise innovative building skills.

Children are fascinated with exploring colors especially when they can mix them to discover new colors. 

Enjoy a few pictures from the past couple of weeks.

Growing water beads and creating calming bottles for our Safe Place corner. 

Making fizzy colors.

Setting up our 'walking rainbow' experiment.

What do you notice?

Let's not forget about our cool Skittles Rainbow!!

Watch and listen as the rainbow formed right before our eyes!

Magical!

Skittles Rainbow Experiment

Colors are everywhere.

Thank you, God for giving us so many beautiful colors!