The Week in Review
January 27-31, 2014
The children have been interested in the idea of
storytelling. This week we discussed the different ways stories can be told. We
provided the children with a descriptive sentence and asked them to draw a
picture that went along with the sentence. The teacher guided a conversation
about what details they could add to their picture to better represent their
sentence. Later in the week, Ms. Mused provoked the children’s thinking with a
screen, and the book “A Very Snowy Day.” The children acted out the stories
with their shadows. This exploration got the children thinking about how they
could tell a story without using words.
Ms. Cicchelli got the children thinking about shadows with a
white screen and flashlights. The children experimented with their bodies and
the flashlights. The children discovered how the placement of their bodies
affected the size of their shadows and the placement of the flashlight
determined the intensity of their shadows. Many of the children were under the
impression that they always have a shadow. Ms. Cicchelli’s next investigation
will be searching for shadows.
Blue trays, sand, rocks and cups full of water nurtured the
children’s curiosity about water. The watched as the water pushed away the sand
and rocks to carve out a pathway. The children discovered that the amount of
water poured onto the tray determined the amount of sand that would collect at
the bottom of the tray. Also, the children noticed how they had to add more
water in order for the rocks to travel down to the bottom of the tray.
