Lulu Returns

Today, was 'Lulu's' first day back from summer vacation. She arrived with longer locks of beautiful curls, new freckles, and a boatload of new words! She wasn't sure about her Mama leaving to go to work, but after a few minutes of some cuddle time with me, she was off to explore the added materials!

HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR DAY

Exploring a Material: Glue

The kiddies explored the properties of glue since they don't have much experiene with glue. I simply offered glue to the children on a covered space to allow for exploration. They experimented with paintbrushes, small spoons, and their fingers. They realized it was sticky, and when semi- dry, it can be rubbed off their skin. The kids later mixed in Red, Blue, and Yellow powder paint and turned their glue different colors.

Later in the day, Lulu discovered dried glue on her arm and noticed it could be peeled off with her fingers (she wan't too keen on this idea because she kept saying "owie, glue"). It was pulling on her little arm hairs. Sophia then began searching her own body for dried glue to peel off, and found some!

They were definitely engaged and had fun exploring how glue works. We're going to continue exploring glue over an extended period of time to deepen their understanding of this material and its properties in preparation of when we begin 'collage' work.

Gardening: Since we're still in the heat of the summer, the only thing we're harvesting in our garden are tomatoes, so we picked the ripe ones, and I'm trying to convince Sophia to leave the green ones attached!

Spanish: Austin brought a book to share, Diez Pequeñas Mariquitas and it was a HUGE hit! Sophia recently learned how to count to ten in Spanish (she often forgets the number 7 though) so she basically took over the counting portion. Thanks Austin (and Mama Allison), for bringing this fun book to share today!