September 21-25 Four Year Olds

Another busy week in room 102! The four year old class had their first field trip to the Beanstalk Garden. We got to tour the garden and look at many different kinds of fruits and vegetables. Some of us even chose to taste some of the different vegetables. At the end of our time there, we planted basil plants to take home with us. The best part of the field trip for most of the children, however, was the school bus ride! We talked at school this week BEFORE our trip about what we know about buses. AFTER our trip, we wrote another list of things we now knew about buses after riding one. The children had so much to say – we even made our own school buses! Be sure to look at the bulletin board we are creating this week to see what we had to say. 

 The four year old class also had their first Snacks with Stacy time. Stacy Al Ettar (fellow preschool teacher and all around awesome lady) came to read the children a story, and to talk with them about healthy foods. We played a stoplight game, in which the children had to decide which foods were “green light” (all fruits and veggies), which were “yellow light” (foods we eat in moderation), and which were “red light” (junk food and candy). Stacy also left us with a healthy snack of snap peas and strawberries. Yum! 

here we go!

we are listening carefully to our guide!

we were encouraged to touch the leaves of most everything we saw. this is a fig tree.

we pretended to be seeds, and then we grew into flowers!

we loved seeing this BIG grasshopper

we loved this pond with "big goldfish" in it (or, koi fish!)

Snacks with Stacy

creating our own school bus

we used different materials for windows, wheels, and people.

this child noticed that the wheels didn't have "the circle part in the middle" so she cut it and fixed that problem herself. SO fun to watch the children process all of this.

this bus needed an engine on the bottom.