Box Study Begins!
Post Office Dramatic Play Center
To kick off our Box Study, our Dramatic Play Center has been transformed into a Post Office, complete with different-sized boxes, student mailboxes, bubble wrap, and more. Our Writing Center has also become a place where students can write letters, use our Address Book to address envelopes, apply stamps, and deliver their mail to classmates’ mailboxes.
The students are having so much fun pretending, creating, and exploring the many different uses for boxes!
Which comes first - The chicken or the Egg?
Our Pre-K classes are going to find out thanks to Cherrie Curtis, CEA - 4H and Youth and Development Leader, and Cora Wieneck TX 4-H Poultry Ambassador. They brought us eggs, an incubator, and read a book to us about the life cycle of a chicken.
This week, we carefully removed several eggs from the incubator to examine them using an egg candler. A candling lamp is a special tool designed to shine light through the egg so we can observe the developing embryo inside. We dimmed the lights and took turns looking closely at each egg. It was amazing to see that all of the eggs we checked had baby chicks growing inside!
With only a few more days until hatch time, we are full of anticipation and can hardly wait to meet our baby chicks!
I can make green!
This week we studied Objective 33, which explores the visual arts and increases our awareness of color. We experimented with mixing yellow and blue to create green. It was fun to hear the students’ predictions about what would happen when the colors were combined. They were all excited to see the final result and watch the new color appear.
