Welcome to the After Party! Each week after the weekly blog featuring activities in the elementary department is posted, our sensory cart is parked in the media center where it is available for check out by the rest of the school.
Here are some photos from February carts!
Our first theme complemented the Unique Curriculum unit for the month—-Peacekeepers.
The students made peace signs or other sculptures with chenille stems.
Some of them got quite creative.
We used gold kinetic sand and a circle shaped cookie cutter to represent the Nobel Peace Prize medal.
The students loved exploring the sand.
Nelson Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was from South Africa, also know as the “rainbow nation”.
Two different sized scoops added to the fun.
They sorted red and white pompoms, the colors of the Polish flag, in our Lech Walesa box.
They did a great job.
Malala is the youngest Nobel Prize winner.
Her box contained green tea and the letter M.
The students were encouraged to drawn peace signs,
circles, and other patterns were drawn in shaving cream.
They had a lot of fun, as usual.
Letters forming the word PEACE were scooped out of the water.
Different sized scoops were also included.
Peach scent reminded us of Georgia, where Dr. Martin Luther King was born.
The students really liked the scent.
We learned about Oregon in our next unit.
Blue and yellow are the colors of the state flag. There was a map of the state and the letter O to find.
There were fungi to find in a box dedicated to mushroom festivals in Oregon.
Hikers roamed the Blue Mountains.
This box contained lots of symbols and things associated with the state.
The meadowlark that whistled when moved was a hit!
Shaving foam letter O’s were fun to make. Hands were rinsed in our Crater Lake.
The ducks in it lit up when touching water—very eye catching!
We celebrated National Random Acts of Kindness Day on February 17.
With this unit, we talked about the different things we could do to show kindness to our friends-
—–such as sharing slime “candy”.
This was the first time we have used slime and it was a hit!
Another way to show kindness is to give someone flowers. 
There were a variety to explore in this box.
The leis were especially popular.
The students stamped hugs and kisses in red moon sand.
We put yellow food coloring in the shaving cream and asked the students to make “smiley faces”.
They had fun making all sorts of lines and shapes.
Our water play became a car wash.
Washing someone’s car would be a really nice random act of kindness!
This box represented “cooking someone dinner”.
There were pieces of play food to find in the dried pasta.
Buying someone a present is a really nice thing to do.
We included play money…
and a variety of things that would make a fun present.
See you next month!