Hop, Hop and Bop?!

MOTORING MUSIC
We enjoyed playing our hand drums today in music class with Annette. We reviewed how to make different low and high sounds. We even tried them on as umbrellas and made rain sounds lightly with our fingertips. The favorite number was "I Traveled Around Australia On Hwy. No. 1" by The Shenanigans. In this musical tour around from town to town "down under" moving differently with each stop. The hand drums made great steering wheels. This adventurous and educational circle time replaced our usual morning story.


Nate describes his drawing; "This is in space and that's the rocket up there. It's blue. It's going to blast off." I am fascinated by the use of scale and pattern around the edges of the round shape in this drawing. It gives it a sense of dimension.

TODAY'S ACTIVITY
Usha provided for both groups to collage the round "plates" they painted Monday. Children selected brightly colored die-cut shapes and insects. We'll see how they come out tomorrow.

SENSORY SCIENCE
We began experimenting this week at the sensory table. A tub of water is irresistable to most young children. Add to that multi-colored glass marbles, a couple dozen magnetic balls of similar diameter and three magnetic wands and you have a set up for investigation. At first, massaging their hands with the marbles underwater was enough. Second, they began sorting them by color. Third, the magnet test. By waving the magnetic wands over the tiny spheres, some moved and stuck to them while others did not. This made for an exceedingly fun clean-up, especially when pouring the marbles into the glass vase. It was loud! The most interesting discovery was in using the sifters to separate the marbles from the water. Someone noticed,"Look at the [sifter] squares! They got big in the marbles!" Sure enough, the glass marbles and water combined to form a lens that magnified the pattern of the sifter below. We are definitely going to do more with this idea...