It was a gooey kind of morning today again in the Turtle Room. In addition to flour, cornstarch, and water, Madigan suggested salt to see if the results were any different from the day before. Interestingly enough, the product was still gooey and fun to play with! There were some Turtles who chose to add hardly any water to their mixture and experimented with the "soft" mix, while others were quick to add water and plunge their hands into the bowls.
During Morning Meeting, Tamara introduced the Turtles to wire. She showed us different tools, such as pliers and cutters, to help manipulate the wire in various ways. Many of the Turtles made spirals or springs, and others decided to cut them into pieces. We soon realized there were certain wire pieces that were very difficult to cut and some that were very easy.
Some other activities we did this morning included measuring our tallest bean or sunflower and plotting our results on a bar graph! We titled the bar graph "How Tall is My Plant?" and worked very hard to get accurate measurements. It was so exciting to see that some of our plants were 8 inches tall and because our beans and sunflowers are growing so quickly, we will be sending them home with families tomorrow to plant in their own garden.
Then the Turtles set off to make visits all over campus!
visiting Heidi at the Nurse's office
Saying hello to the 1st graders, where we received the What is Meanness? book they made for us!
Going to Ruairi's class to see if the chicks arrived from the farm.
Looking at the tadpoles.
Getting some ideas from the big kids' character sketches from previous plays to start our own drawings of our beanstalk story!
Reading the What is Meanness? book.
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