Dear Parents,
We started our week writing down what we know about cats and dogs. The class knew a lot and disagreed on whether cats and dogs like water. We realized some friends were talking about them swimming in water vs. drinking water. Everyone agreed that cats and dogs both like to drink water.
We did an obstacle course in the big room. The children balanced, crawled, went through a hoop, rolled over bean bags, and crawled up the slide. Two children who said they didn’t think they could climb up the slide, climbed up the slide. We went around and around the course until we were tired and then played in the big room.
While half the class used the balance beam in gymnastics with Casey and Malik, the rest of us played with red clay in the classroom. Gymnastics has a sort of obstacle course too, which includes a balance beam.
We had our first family share. Vincent brought Lily, Chiara’s dog, to visit the class. We learned that Lily has a special water bottle, a wee-wee pad, and a pink leash. She loves her carrier, broccoli, yogurt, and fruit, except grapes! When Vincent told us that Lily is six years old, everyone began talking about how old they are. Lily is older than everyone in our class, but not older than some siblings.
We started making our first three planets: Earth, Venus, and Mars. We dipped torn newspaper into a glue and water mixture and gently wrapped balloons. The class worked for two days carefully covering the balloons. The second day we covered them with fabric, felt, and tissue paper. They're still drying as we speak.
We made a list of what we know about planets. One person said, “Pluto is the littlest planet on Earth.”
We asked which planet cats and dogs live on? “Earth!” the class shouted.
Have a wintry, earthly weekend,
Therese