Happy Earth Day everyone! As you know we’ve been learning about different insects over the past few weeks – and having a great time! We’ve also been talking about taking care of our environment and all living things on earth. This is a conversation I try to incorporate into everything theme I can. I feel it’s very important. So, again today we talked about the ways to take care of the earth and the creatures in it – I always like the ideas the children are able to bring to the discussion!
After our talk, we walked around the school and picked up any trash we found. I was surprised and glad that there wasn’t much garbage lying around! We also talked about reusing items and making them into something different. I pointed out some of the art we have hanging up that uses toilet paper rolls or egg cartons. They seemed to get the idea – which pleased me. Then I told them we were going to use paper plates to make art. So, with a permanent black marker I drew a spiral in the paper plate – starting in the middle and working out – and we water colored them. These will turn into snail shells – the children were excited that we were making “rainbow snails” from paper plates!
The fire martial came by our school to make sure all the rooms were safe and I was happy my room passed! The children literally froze and stared at her when she walked in – they are not used to strangers coming into their space and looking all around! A couple asked who she was and why she was there – she didn’t answer – she just smiled and ignored their inquiries. So we told them that she was from the fire department and she was checking our school (and our room) to make sure it was safe and we could get out in case of a fire. They wanted to know if the fire truck was there – and were disappointed when we told them no!
All in all, a good but busy day!
Teaching to Dream 