Having made our plan yesterday for our house, today we began working on it! We started with painting the chimney orange, only we didn't have any orange paint, so the children quickly figured out that we could make orange by mixing red and yellow. Then they realized that the red was stronger than the yellow, so they had to add a LOT of yellow to get an orange color they were pleased with. Next we moved on to the brick house, where many of the bricks were peeling off. We used a special kind of glue call Modge-Podge to re-adhere the bricks, and to give them a strong durable finish.
At Morning Meeting, Tamara told the children that our play dough was drying out, and that we needed to make something new for our sensory trays. We could choose between flubber and play dough, and Fran introduced graphing as a way to make decisions. She had each child make a choice, and then color in their square. As they went along, they counted how many squares there were to see who was "winning." Some children figured out that they could look at the number beside the squares to figure out the total. Graphing is an activity that draws on so many aspects of numeracy from number recognition to quantifying and one-to-one correspondence.
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