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Week 6 Highlights

What happens when children encounter a new material?

Clay has a natural appeal and the students enjoy interacting with it. There are endless possibilities, interactions and transformations.

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Using a similar material...different ideas, a different feeling.

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Baby Stories…when children hear stories about themselves, a special feeling of belonging, excitement, delight, and pride is born. Questions and observations quickly unfolded

What were you like as a baby?

What did you like? (To eat? To play with? To do?)

Look at your eyes! (Curly hair, big eyes…)

You were a happy baby!

You loved to be carried!

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Birthday Math!

“An ant cake! 7 ants!” -Arian

“I have three cakes and so many candles. These cakes are older than all of us!” -Amelia

“We have to make party cakes for Arsh’s birthday! There are four of us, let’s make four cakes!” -Jeha

“I’m going to make an “A” cake. A is for Arsh.” -Jaden

“Arsh is 5 years old so I need to put 5 candles on this cake. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!” -Rhea

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Continuing our guinea pig playground…

“How are other people going to know what this is? We need a sign! We need to write “Guinea Pig Playground!” -Shulynne

“Yeah, then everyone will know! They will know this is the reason we have been working so hard!” -Amelia

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Tada! Move and Groove