Our zoo has closed

Students have enjoyed spending the last few weeks creating a zoo in our dramatic play center and exploring different animals around our classroom.

We spent a lot of time learning the names of different animals and discussing the idea of a habitat.

Here's a look at some of what we did:

We worked on making trees for the giraffes to eat.

We worked hard being zookeepers.

Here we are exploring some animal puzzles.

Working hard on a crocodile habitat.

Our animal hunt was lots of fun!

We found animals in the sand.

We painted animals.

We enjoyed animal stories too!

What's next............

We are working hard to create a grocery store in our dramatic play center.

Grocery Store Adventures

Our fun with boxes has come to an end and students have been asking for quite awhile now if we can use the shopping cart in our classroom.

Once the shopping cart appeared in the dramatic play center students immediately began to play store.  We have started to collect a variety of boxes and grocery store items, which students are having a lot of fun with.  We have even found a working cash register with "real" money.

Here's a look at the fun we are beginning to have in our classroom grocery store:

We hope to continue our grocery store exploration when we get back to school on February 27th.

BCS Valentine Fun

The last few weeks have kept us busy with all sorts of Valentine activities, including: fingerpainting, decorating hearts, playdough fun, card making, water table fun, sewing, and of course lots and lots of sparkles.

Through all of these activities we have been working on:

• Sharing and cooperating with others
• Trying new materials
• Fine motor skills (sewing hearts)
• Creativity
• Listening and following directions

and of course we've had a lot of fun too!

We've put together a little video to show you some of the Valentine fun we have had.  We hope you enjoy seeing all that has been keeping us busy the last few weeks.

Exploring Boxes

Over the past week we have noticed that students needed a change in the dramatic play center.
We polled the class to see what they wanted to do and the winning idea was boxes.

First we had to clear out the dramatic play area...this was a big job.

Then we provided students with a variety of boxes to explore.

To give students a view ideas we listened to the story Not A Box- here is a link to the story you can watch at home:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KXuBcdmktY

Some made cars:

Some made robots:

Some made houses and forts:

We are interesting in watching what the students create as we gather more boxes and explore different ways to use them.

Zoo Adventures

After listening to students expressing an interest in creating a zoo we have provided them with a variety of materials to explore different animals and create a zoo.

They having been working hard this week building our classroom zoo.

Here is a quick peek at some of what we have been doing and working on:
Reminder- click on the photos and videos to make them bigger.

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Brrrrr, it's cold!

We have had a very cold week at school and haven't been able to go outside all week.
With the cold weather outside we decided to bring the snow inside so students still had a chance to experience it.

Here's a look at some of the fun we had.

This week we hope things warm up so we can all go outside and have fun in the snow!

BCS Christmas Fun

December has been a very busy month full of lots of Christmas fun.

Here is a short video of some of the things we have done.

We hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and look forward to seeing the kids back at school on Wednesday, January 4th.