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Welcome to pirate day! We have been reading pirate books to the large group. This led to them wanting to bring up the pirate dress up. Of course, it wouldn’t be much fun without treasure! We loaded the sensory bin with gems, necklaces, and gold coins. The friends pretended to hide the treasure to be found over and over again.

Today we tired some experimental ship building.  We used tin foil, straws and tape to create ships with sails.  We tested the ships in a water table to see if they  would sink or float.  We used straws to blow wind into the sails to see if we could push our boats across the water.  If our ship sank, we tried to identify the reason for the problem and then find a way to modify our design.  A couple of friends experienced some frustration so we had an opportunity to talk about trial and error in the scientific process.  We found that as we kept designing, we often liked our later designs better than our earlier ones…and then there were some of us who were delighted when our ship sank!

At the round table today we had a beach treasure hunt.  We searched for pirate gold beneath sand and under shells loading our baskets with out find.

Breakfast: Cheerios & watermelon

Lunch: Brown rice w/ beef, cucumbers/peppers, & watermelon/pears

PM Snack: Triscuits, sunflower seeds, & chia seed pudding (Our friends got to help make it yesterday. They thoroughly enjoyed trying it today!)

Wee Sprouts: Peppers & cucumbers

Recipe to chia seed pudding:

1/4 cup chia seeds

1/2 cup vanilla yogurt

1/2 cup milk

1 tsp maple syrup

In our Chia pudding taste test today we found that 7 of our friends liked it, 3 did not and 4 friends did not try it.

Link to photos: 2023-03-30

Have a nice afternoon,

Ms. Linsey & Ms. Kim