5, 4, 3, 2, 1...Blast Off! We have continued our travels in outer space this week with a trip to the center of the Earth and Mars. While learning about the planet earth, we talked about the idea of earth and the sun. We used a flashlight (the sun) and a globe to demonstrate the idea that when it is day time on one side of the earth, it is night time on the other side. We also reinforced this concept by creating an earth picture. We practiced our cutting skills with this project.
In honor of Martin Luther King's upcoming birthday, we had a discussion about Dr. Martin Luther King's accomplishments. We talked about how when Martin Luther King was a child, not everybody could play together or go to school together because of the way they looked or their skin color. This sparked a lot of discussion (including the fact that Martin Luther King was not an actual king) and led us to talk about what we can all do to make our earth and classroom a peaceful place. The class came up with some really great ideas on what they can do themselves to help others and the earth. You can see our responses on the wall outside of the classroom.
We had a very busy Shabbat this week. We started by brushing up on our german numbers with Sabine (Noah's mom). We were excited to hear a new story about the german colors too. Thank you Sabine for an exciting group time! After singing a few favorite Shabbat songs and enjoying soem challah, we took a trip over to the grade school side to meet with our 1st/2nd grade buddies. The blue room friends were so excited to meet with their buddies after hearing about this plan on Thursday. We were warmly greeted by our buddies as each 1/2nd grader took their blue room buddy by the hand and showed them the project that was planned for our visit. It was such a warm welcome by our buddies! Some of our buddies also made pictures and notes for the blue room friends. We worked with our buddies to come up with words for each letter of the alphabet. These words will be later turned into a alphabet book. Afterwards, we all met on the rug for a singalong with Mr. Salk and his guitar. We had a great visit with our buddies and can't wait until next time!
We have many recent projects on display outside of the classroom. Come check out our space ships and space stories outside of the classroom! Next week we will continue our our space journey. We will also talk about the upcoming Jewish holiday Tu B'Shvat (a celebration of trees).
reading about planets
why do we have day and night?
in the playground
with first and second grade buddies, and their teacher
watching a video of King's speech "I have a dream"
see, there is lava inside planet earth!
rocket ship
ice sculpture with salt as glue
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