The winter spirit is still in the air and we have gone on two recent snowy adventures to the Glen Eden playground. We had to travel through some deep snow to get there, oh so worth the post holing session.
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Friday is always a fun day to do science experiments. Today we explored what happens to food when it drops into our stomach. To recreate this event visibly, we created a stomach acid demonstration with water, food coloring, and Alkazeltzer. The take away message was understanding that food gets broken down and dissolved in our stomach acid fluids, to eventually be absorbed as nutrients and energy, or discharged as waste.
Some of the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines targeted include:
Our parents are top notch community members and volunteer their time to share their knowledge about all kinds of fields. This week we were fortunate enough to have Jean come teach us some of the procedures done by a nurse when doing a health check up. We all got to be patients and learn about our own health. Now we have an array of new possibilities to explore based on our new knowledge about check ups in our community room Doctor's Office.
Some of the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines targeted include:
Thank you Louise for coming to teach us about horse anatomy! We are so fortunate at NRP to have such involved parents and community members.The kids where ecstatic to be able to handle a freeze dried horse leg that was dissected through the middle in order to see the inside of the leg. Some of the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines targeted during this special guest visit include:
After staining our shells throughout the week, we decided it was time to test the theory of baking soda paste as being a proper way to remove stains from teeth-like surfaces. The backing soda paste was very abrasive and partially successful at removing stains from some of the shells. The colors that cleaned up the best where yellow and green. Red, blue, and purple remained stained for the most part. We decided it would be a good idea to avoid processed foods with those particular added colors. Some of the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines targeted during this activity include:
Today we had a very special guest come visit our classroom to reinforce our Healthy Habits investigation. Jess Lepage has volunteered her time before to share with us knowledge about her field of expertise. Today, she came to share about healthy habits specific to nutrition. The foods she focused on due to their special benefits to our body included: broccoli, carrots, apples, bananas, meat and milk. In the pictures bellow you can read more about the benefits of these foods to our overall health. Thanks Jess! Some of the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines targeted during this special guest visit include:
Today we started an experiment that relates to our healthy lifestyle investigation. We were wondering what would happen to our teeth if we didn't brush them for a day, or even several days. To simulate the scenario without actually not brushing our teeth, we collected white shells (that resembled our teeth) from our materials room. Then we made 5 food coloring dye solutions to drop our shells for the time period of choice, In a few days we shall see what happened to our shells and if we are even capable of brushing the dye off the shells. To be Continued... Some of the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines targeted during this activity include:
Did you know we now have a doctor's office at NRP? Come check out the community room and this new space where friends are exploring another way to promote a healthful life style. Bellow are some pictures of two "doctors" and a "patient" being cared for. Also, we started a project called "healthy choices clip art" some friends already started the project and cut out healthy choices to display on our project wall and potentially make a book in the future. For our overarching question: How do we stay healthy? a whole array of topics have come up in our classroom and developed our curriculum. We explored the concept of a virus and how it attacks our body and make us feel sick. This discussion created a lot of questions amongst the preschoolers. One question that we decided to explore further with our sensory table, was the question: "If white blood cells protect our body from viruses, what do red blood cells do?" Bellow, are some pictures of the sensory experience answering that question. We first read a simplified version of blood composition and learned a lot about platelets, red blood cells, white blood cells and plasma! We then came up with our own blood sample to symbolize and learn the four components of one of the most important substances in our bodies; blood. (In case you are wondering, the red blood cells main purpose is to carry oxygen from our lungs to other parts of our bodies.) After a long weekend away from school, one of our pre-kindergardeners said: "Ms. Gaby, remember the blood sample we made? That was so much fun!" and then I asked him about the different components of blood and he remembered a surprising amount of information. Learning can be so fun and motivating when done from a place of curiosity and creativity. Some of the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines targeted include:
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