*Reminder—Due dates for conference related materials:

• The conference sign-up form is due this Friday, January 29th
• The pre-conference form is due Friday, February 12th
• The re-enrollment form & fee is due Friday, March 4th (the day of conferences)

Thank you! We look forward to talking with you at conference time.

Today’s big project today was an exploration of one of the coolest substances: GOOP! Friends explored the feel of cornstarch before it was combined with water and a little watercolor. The resulting mixture was a pink goop that is both a liquid and a solid!

Friends took their time with this substance, feeling it with their fingers and hands. Later we added popsicle sticks so they could scrape and stir their goop. Most friends didn’t mind the messy nature of this project.

Such focus!

Kindergarten: Today’s kindergarten work continued to explore how simple geometric shapes can be combined to form larger shapes. We worked with some “Make a Shape” cards that gave children instructions for creating a shape. For example, the task may be to make a hexagon out of 1 trapezoid and 3 triangles. Many friends joined in this work! 

Elliott came across a card that wanted him to make a hexagon out of 1 hexagon, 2 rhombuses, and 2 trapezoids. He was having trouble forming a hexagon until we realized that although those shapes could not make a regular hexagon, he could make an irregular hexagon: a shape with 6 sides that are not all equal! It was quite a discovery.

Wee Sprouts: Tomatoes. Breakfast: Hot wheat cereal and fresh pears. Lunch: Scrambled farm fresh eggs with whole wheat bread, fresh pea pods and oranges. Snack: Refried beans and blue corn chips.

Link to the photo album: WF 1/27/2016

Have a wonderful Wednesday! –Jessica