Hello Diener Friends! Welcome back to the blog! Please read below to see what your children have been doing...
This week in the primary music class, we continued singing our favorite songs and playing our favorite instruments. We sang our "Scarecrow" song and learned a new song about Halloween, "Orange Pumpkin, Orange Pumpkin, What Do You See?" We were really into the Bear Hunt this week!
In the Inters and Uppers classes, we continued to learn about musical instruments. This week, we learned about the woodwinds family, and saw pictures of and heard the sounds of the flute, oboe, clarinet, piccolo, saxophone, and recorded. We continued to play our favorite movement games!
In fitness, we continued practicing our soccer passes. We also began our second week of kickball. We will eventually be able to have class vs. class kickball games and ultimately, a staff vs. students game! More details to follow!
This week in yoga, we learned new poses such as "lizzard on a rock" and "cobra snake." We moved our bodies into three different poses and everyone enjoyed themselves!
In art, the primary class had a great time painting popsicle sticks! First, we had to make the paint thicker by adding flour. The children put the paint on their paper and used their popsicle sticks to spread the paint and create wonderful designs!
In the inters class, we focused on making secondary colors combining different primary colors. The kids mixed different primary colors together to see which secondary colors (green, orange, and purple) they could make!
This week in science, we explored the sense of taste by conducting taste test(s). In the primary and inters class, we talked about how our tongue helps us to talk and taste things! We stimulated our taste buds by sampling foods (lemon wedge, jelly bean, potato chip, and unsweetened cocoa)from the four major taste groups; sour, sweet, salty, and bitter. The uppers had a blast identifying taste in the Jelly Belly taste test. The kids were delighted to try each jelly bean and match the taste in their mouth to the corresponding picture. In addition to the taste test, the uppers learned about the famous inventor, George Washington Carver, and his discovery of the peanut! We talked about how was use the peanut, products that contain peanuts, and how some people are allergic to peanuts. Overall, it was a very tasty week!!
We had a great time in the Social Club this week, making Halloween finger puppets/bookmarks and tasty carmel apples. We had fun putting puzzles together and building a Lego village! We worked on coming up with polite ways to ask friends to play with us and friendly ways to tell them that we do not want to play. The participants are making social strides and forming tighter bonds with their classmates!
The first week of the Buddy Program started out wonderfully! The Green Acres students took to our kids immediately and we coined the term, "Buddy Power!" Our kids were matched and introduced to their buddy from Green Acres and we jumped right into our activities. Half of the buddies hung out with Mr. Aaron and played a challenging game where they had to work with their buddy to find a pumpkin. The other half of the buddies worked with Ms. Patrice and Ms. Abbe to make delicious caramel apples. The buddies had time to discuss what they like about fall and what they like to do in the fall. Everyone is looking forward to our next meeting on October 28th!
Congrats to the Patrols on their first week on duty! A few kinks need to be worked out, but the more we do our post, the better we will be! Thank you Patrols, see you on Monday!!
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