Construction Underway

We have been loving building our bodies this week! Hopefully, we'll have them completed by the end of next week, and I cannot wait to share them with you.

The morning class started work on their body by creating a brain on Wednesday. We talked about how the brain is the boss of our bodies and it tells our bodies how to move and what to do to accomplish different tasks. We also spent some time examining various pictures of brains to determine what our brain should look like. Here's what they came up with:

They rolled play dough into "worms" and squished them all together to make:

the brain, which we put inside this plastic skull.

On Wednesday, the morning class worked on their legs. We ran out of PVC pipe while working on our second leg, so we taped two together. This led them to come up with the idea that their person had broken a leg, so we put a cast (made of a sponge and some gauze) on it. While we did this, we talked about how broken bones are fixed. Here are their legs:

The afternoon class decided to make the skeleton of their body first. We started out making the arms and collar bone on Wednesday. Then we added hips and legs on Thursday.

Emma, who brought a bunch of sponges to share, was determined to use her sponges on Thursday too, so we did some brainstorming about what we could use them for. Eventually, they decided to use the sponges to make the brain. First, though, they needed to paint them, because the brain is not yellow or green. 

 After the girls painted the sponges red, they scrunched them all together and we tied them together using some string. Of course, since the string was white, it needed to be painted too. Here's the finished brain:

We'll continue this project next week, and hopefully, we'll be finished by Thursday. I'm hoping to have full skeletons, with some organs (heart, lungs, etc.). We'll see what the kiddos have in mind first though!

Here's a look at some other things we did this week:

We made pattern bracelets:

We made Puff Corn Balls with Jodie:

We also did some finger painting and, of course, continued our construction in the block center.

Just a reminder: Our vision and hearing screenings are on Monday (or Tuesday for those who come on Tuesday and Thursday). If you haven't brought in your consent forms, please bring them in on Monday! Thanks!

Also, we are having a tip day at Pizza Ranch on March 10 from 11-8. I want to encourage everyone to sign up for a shift to help out with this day. You can sign up for just one hour or for as many hours as you would like. We're planning to use this money to update our play ground!