Sunday, February 26, 2017

President's Day

We learned about presidents this week, and we focused especially on Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.  We looked at different coins and the presidents on them, and were even able to do a small experiment with them.  Thanks to the beautiful weather, we were also able to have some fun outside this week as well.  I'm so ready for Spring!!! :)


Cooper got to share his adventures with Gumby this week!


We made our own special American flags with various rectangles, our shape of the week, and counted the number of stars and stripes we used for each one.


We talked about what we would do if we became president and then drew pics of what we would look like as presidents.



 We made masks of either Abraham Lincoln or George Washington out of paper plates.  This was the before...


...and here is the after.  So cute! :)

We painted with cut toilet paper rolls to create what should look like fireworks.  We traced our letter "K" for Kaboom with our red, white, and blue paint.


We had fun playing inside with puzzles...

...with magna tiles...

...with trucks...

...with dolls...

...with playdough...

 ...and with cars.


We also had fun playing outside too!  Thank God for the beautiful weather. :)




Though it's hard to tell, these kiddos are investigating a caterpillar that they found on the playground.  
They found it and looked at it all on their own.  See?  Kids ARE born scientists! :)


We tested surface tension of water with drops of water on 4 different coins.  When we dropped water on the coins, the water molecules stuck together like magnets and made a water bubble on top.  We counted to see how many drops of water we could fit on the coin before the water fell off and out of the bubble.  We discovered that the smaller coins held fewer drops of water.  Each kiddo had a turn to use a water dropper to drop water on the coins as well.  This was a great fine motor activity as well as a fun science experiment!



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