Safari!

Since the students have been so interested in the various animal toys we have put out in our classroom, I decided to roll with this and start talking about safari animals! We changed our dramatic play center into the safari with binoculars, animal print vests, safari animals, and more!  Each week we’ll feature a special safari animal as part of our lessons! Check out the pictures below of the students going on a safari!

The Tooth Fairy Visits

Also, during community helpers’ week, we had the “tooth fairy” visit our classroom.  She talked to the preschoolers about good and bad food for our teeth, how to brush our teeth, and other fun teeth information! Enjoy!

Community Helpers

To highlight community helpers’ week, students dressed up last Thursday like their favorite community helper or what they want to be when they grow up.  We had everything from farmers, to doctors, to teachers, to football players, to construction workers, to firefighters, to police officers, to dancers, and even a detective and an astronaut.  Thank you to all the families for dressing your preschooler up for this special day.  The students enjoyed sharing their outfits with their peers.

Investigating Further

We expanded upon our ice fishing experiment from last week by demonstrating exactly how salt helps ice melt.  Students first observed and tried to “drive” a car on ice.  What happened? It slid all over the ice, because it didn’t have any traction.  Then we discussed how in the wintertime, ice melts when the sun shines on it and when salt trucks dump salt onto the roads. 

So we decided to investigate this further by adding salt to our icy “road” and having the students “drive” the cars over the salted ice.  They observed how the salt melted the ice into water, especially when heat was added to it (like the hair dryer, which represented the heat from the sun).  We even tried sand to see if that worked too.  (It did, but not as quickly as the salt.)

I hope you enjoy the pictures below!  Have a great weekend! J