Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Nature Detectives - Floating In The Air


Monday we learned about floating in the air.

 
We started out our day with circle time. We looked out the window to see what the weather was like (cloudy) and we put today’s date piece on our calendar. Miss M loves the sight word and color flowers so she sat there for a while looking/playing with those.


Next we used our magnifying glass to search our theme poster for things floating in the sky.


Our first activity for the day was called Feather Float Test. Mother Goose Time provided us with some feather manipulatives this month. We would toss a feather in the air and observe how it slowly floats to the ground. We noticed that the smaller feathers floated more slowly than the larger feathers. Miss M had a blast throwing them up in the air. Then I had her sit down and I held a feather above her head and Miss M would try to catch it.


Next, we got to make a hot air balloon! Miss M wasn’t very interested in helping decorate the balloon or the cup so we just went ahead and put it together.

 
I tried to get her to explore and find a small object to put in the little basket (soufflé cup) but she checked it out for a couple minutes and then decided to just rip the cup off right away. Then she just wanted to just run around the room with the balloon.

 
Our last activity for the day was called Kicking Clouds. I cut out some cloud shapes and attached some yarn to them. Miss M helped make some clouds of her own by ripping up some paper. We don’t have a table to tape the clouds to so I held them up for her to look up at them while lying on her back. Then we tried kicking the clouds. She did this a couple of times and then wanted to play and run around with the clouds. Run, run, run :)


We also read Sally’s Great Balloon Adventure. It was a very cute story about a black Lab named Sally and a hot air balloon.

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