STEM Family Outreach Activity

What a fun time!  We really enjoyed our time in the STEM lab.  There was so many different things to do.  Look at some of the fun we had!

Once Upon a Time...

We enjoyed being royal this week. Monday we read about The Knight and the Dragon and created a dragon of our own. 

We worked hard on our fine-motor skills when we had to color in the lines with colored pencils to decorate a knight’s shield.

On Wednesday we made fancy crowns featuring a three-part pattern.

We wrapped up the week on Thursday with our Royal Tea Party that we dressed up in royal attire. We created a castle picture frame and put in a photo of our class in royal clothing.

Little Foodies

food·ie  /ˈfo͞odē/ n.   a person with a particular interest in food; a gourmet.

We enjoyed our short week after our extended weekend. This week we talked about foods around the world. We have three restaurant play areas in our classroom: Mexican, Italian & Chinese.

On Wednesday we made a place setting to kick off our week of food.
Thursday we made a shape taco. We like using fun ways to reinforce colors, shapes and numbers!!

Next week we hope to be back to our regularly-scheduled 4 day, Monday-Thursday week. We are looking forward to our Royal Dress Up day next Thursday

Arctic Animals Week

The weather this week certainly reflected our theme of Arctic Animals! We hope you enjoyed the five “stay home” days we had. 

Wednesday we learned about husky sled dogs and made a husky puppet. It required lots of parts and direction following. 

Thursday we made an eskimo, this also required lots of parts and direction following. We wrapped up the week on Friday with a penguin project using our fine-motor skills to tear paper. 

 Our dramatic play area was transformed into an arctic area. We had an "igloo" that the kids could read in and a fishing hole as well. The kids seem to really enjoy using their imaginations in this area.

Some of our favorite books this week were: 

Count Alaska's Colors by Shelley Gill
Tacky and the Winter Games by Helen Lester

Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester
Alaska ABC Book by Charlene Kreeger
Three Cheers for Tacky by Helen Lester

The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett

Please continue to send all winter gear because we will go out whenever it’s above zero degrees.