Between the first day of spring and St. Patrick’s day, March is all about GREEN! Our sensory groups explored monochromatic boxes with lots of different textures. Our fine motor groups used green paint to complete their art projects and the language group made a tasty green treat!
SENSORY GROUP
This first box contained a variety of green objects including beads, a shaker pompom, plastic leaves, a toy lizard, shamrocks, and a cute green frog puppet.
There were lots of different things to explore!
Science access point: recognize a model of a real object.
Our green rice included some colorful contrasting beans. It was a very eye catching box with a real springtime feel! There were two different sized spoons for scooping fun.
There were also both upper and lower case letter G’s to find.
Science access point: match objects by one observable property, such as shape.
Using a cookie cutter, the students stamped letter G into bright green kinetic sand.
We also put in a fun dinosaur figure to find.
Science access point: recognize that pushing and pulling an object makes it move.
The students loved squeezing and crumbling this green Bubber.
We also included another cookie cutter——this time a shamrock!
Science access point: recognize a change in an object.
Our light box was very eye catching and a hit with the students.
We used a cut up green plastic file folder and hot glued it to the sides of a clear shoebox. The battery packs are attached to the lid with velcro.
Science access point: recognize sources of light.
Green oobleck was super fun to explore. The green food coloring did tint fingers a little——- but Hulk hands are pretty cool 🙂
We love messy fun!
Science access point: apply a push to move an object.
Two different sized green scoops and a toy tugboat added to the fun of our water play. We scented the water with Bath and Body Works rain kissed leaves bath gel.
The scent seemed a perfect choice for this week!
Math access point: recognize difference in sizes of containers that hold liquids.
The rain kissed leaves lotion had a light scent that the students really liked…..
…..whether rubbed on hands, arms, behind ears, or under chins!
Science access point: recognize one or more external body parts.
FINE MOTOR GROUP
On Wednesday, the students used an adapted stamper to paint some green grass.
First, the students identified the shape of their paper and the color of their paint.
Math access point: recognize an object with a two-dimensional shape.
Science access point: identify an object by one observable property, such as color.
Next, the students stamped UP and DOWN.
Math access point: recognize a movement that reflects a spatial relationship.
Then, they chose a colorful butterfly to add to the scene.
Math access point: recognize when an object is added to a situation.
TA DA!!!
Welcome spring and……
……everything GREEN!!!!
On Thursday, the students painted this green bug: bug template
First, they identified the color of the paint.
Science access point: identify an object by one observable property, such as color.
The bug template was put in a clear box and the students added 3 paint colored marbles.
Time to shake, shake, shake that box!
Science access point: recognize that pushing and pulling an object makes it move.
We pulled the bug out and glued it DOWN on the background paper.
Math access point: recognize a movement that reflects a spatial relationship.
Next, the students added some chenille stem “legs”.
Math access point: recognize when an object is added to a situation.
TA DA!
Beautiful green bugs!
LANGUAGE GROUP
Of course, we are making a GREEN treat for the language group. This week we made green milkshakes using this recipe: Let’s Make A Green Milkshake
We started by TURNing the page to see the first step of the recipe. Since it was ice cream, we let each student touch the container first and indicate that it felt COLD. We talked about why it was cold as well and located the freezer.
Science access point: recognize objects or materials as warm or cold.
Then we measured out 2 cups of ice cream and PUT it in the BLENDER.
We measured out a cup of milk and PUT that in the BLENDER as well. We observed that there is one cup of milk in a container of school milk.
Next, we added some green food coloring. Our students HELPed count out 10 drops.
Then we TURNed on the blender. After each student, we asked if the milk shake was ALL DONE or if we needed to blend it some MORE.
Once it was all finished, we poured the milk shake into cups. Our students got to have some whipped cream and green sprinkles too.
Shake, shake, shake your sprinkles 🙂
Green milkshakes—–YUM!!!!!
We are so happy to be back with more fun and learning—–Group by Group!
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