Dia de los Muertos, Pumkpins, Felicity Handwriting and more!
/It’s been yet another busy week for the Whales. On Monday, we found a mysterious package perched on our reading couch. When we read the card, we discovered that a beautiful Handwriting Fairy named Felicity gifted us special workbooks, fancy pencils and special fairy dust to practice our penmanship! We have loved working in our books this week and we already notice our letters are getting easier to read!
On Tuesday we finished exploring our pumpkins. We talked about making predictions (or hypotheses) by using our previous knowledge to help make a reasonable guess. We made predictions about the weight of our pumpkins, the number of seeds in our pumpkins and whether our pumpkin would sink or float.
On Wednesday and Thursday we spent time exploring the Mexican and Latin American holiday Dia de los Muertos. We read stories and talked about the words ”ancestors” and “honor”. We learned that families take time to honor those people who have passed on. They celebrate their lives and the memories they have of their loved ones. Along with the Otters class, we created our own Dai de los Muertos sugar skull art. We practiced using patten and line to create symmetrical art to adorn our skulls. It was wonderful to be together and share space with our Otter friends!
To finish off our apple unit, we read Ten Apples Up On Top and made more predictions about how many “apples” we could balance on our head, and how many steps we could take without letting them fall. It was great fun!
