Our hippos had a wonderful week immersing themselves in the world of ROBOTS! This week we....
* Focused on fine motor strengthening activities
* Went over the letter W, it's sound and items that began with W
* Discussed what we already knew about robots and how we power them
* Asked questions and made predictions about our robot books
* We worked on taking turns and using our words when problems arise
* We made decisions independently when making the different robots during center time
* Discussed feelings of characters and why they felt that way in our book, Robot Rumpus
* Explored with gears that connect and move
* Explored with magnets in the sensory table
* Enjoyed building robots with little legos
* Put little nuts and bolts in robot parmesan containers
* Played with alphabots and snapbots
* Opened and closed locks with keys
* Recalled details of stories read in class
* Played a robot matching game from Robot Rumpus book
* Used nuts, bolts, washers, paper clips, googlie eyes and pipe cleaners to make robots in playdoh
* Created a giant class robot using various recycled materials!
Next Week More Robots!!
Books We Read
Pete the Cat: Robo-Pete
Robot Rumpus
If You're A Robot and You Know It
* Discussed feelings of characters and why they felt that way in our book, Robot Rumpus
* Explored with gears that connect and move
* Explored with magnets in the sensory table
* Enjoyed building robots with little legos
* Put little nuts and bolts in robot parmesan containers
* Played with alphabots and snapbots
* Opened and closed locks with keys
* Recalled details of stories read in class
* Played a robot matching game from Robot Rumpus book
* Used nuts, bolts, washers, paper clips, googlie eyes and pipe cleaners to make robots in playdoh
* Created a giant class robot using various recycled materials!
* Painted robots on foil
* Wrote in our journals about what our special power would have if we were robots.
* Stomped on cups and water bottles based on the book, Smash Bot
* Made patterns with robots and tangram blocks
* Measured robots using unifix cubes
* Watched Ms. Ginny's real robot dance and whistle, his name is Mip
* Discussed coming up with an idea to join in play with our 2nd Steps Curriculum
Next Week More Robots!!
Books We Read
Pete the Cat: Robo-Pete
Robot Rumpus
If You're A Robot and You Know It
Smash Bot
The Most Magnificent Thing
Questions to ask your child:
1. What materials did you use to build our giant class robot? (boxes, lids, water bottles, etc.)
2. What letter does robot start with?
3. What special thing did Ms. Ginny's robot do? (danced to music, whistled)
Questions to ask your child:
1. What materials did you use to build our giant class robot? (boxes, lids, water bottles, etc.)
2. What letter does robot start with?
3. What special thing did Ms. Ginny's robot do? (danced to music, whistled)
4. In the book Robot Rumpus, what did cook-bot put spaghetti in the bathrub? (yes)
5. How do you power robots? (plug them into outlet, batteries, using a key)
5. How do you power robots? (plug them into outlet, batteries, using a key)
6. What did we smash in the gym based on our Smash Bot book? (cups and water bottles)
7. Did we have to clap our hands to get Mip the robot to dance? (yes)
Song
I am a robot (monotone voice the whole time with arms moving back and forth)
I am a robot
Clank, Clank (bend body forward)
Clank, Clank (move body back to upright position)
Zzzrt, Zzzrt! (one arm moves up by head, the other hand moves up by head)
Zzzrt, Zzzrt! (one arm moves back next to body, then the same with the other arm)
Clap, Bang, Crash! (clap hands, begin to run out of power and hang arms and head down)
Zzzrt..zzzrt...zzrt! Power is coming back! (put body in upright position)
Reminders:
Song
I am a robot (monotone voice the whole time with arms moving back and forth)
I am a robot
Clank, Clank (bend body forward)
Clank, Clank (move body back to upright position)
Zzzrt, Zzzrt! (one arm moves up by head, the other hand moves up by head)
Zzzrt, Zzzrt! (one arm moves back next to body, then the same with the other arm)
Clap, Bang, Crash! (clap hands, begin to run out of power and hang arms and head down)
Zzzrt..zzzrt...zzrt! Power is coming back! (put body in upright position)
Reminders:
4/8 NO SCHOOL-professional development day
4/14 and 4/16-parent teacher conferences
4/26 Spring Fair 3:00-5:00 at LECC
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| We practiced patterning with robots. |
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| Creating robots with little legos. |
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| The students placed different screws, bolts, etc. in the holes of a parmesan container. Some fit while others did not fit. |
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| We matched the bots based on our story, Robot Rompus! |
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| Our senory table contained magnets and materials. Some stuck to the magnet while others did not. |
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| We painted robots on foil! |
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| What special power does your robot have? Journal entry |
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| After reading, Smash Bot, we smashed cups and water bottles!! |
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| Here is our shape robot we put together as a class. |
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| Art fun! We mixed white with blue to tint the color. |
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| Show and Tell |
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| Show and Tell |
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| Show and Tell |
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| We extended robot patterns. |
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| Everyone loved the snap bots!! |
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| How many cubes tall are the robots? |
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| We pretended to be gears spinning. |
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| During indoor recess, we sang and danced to robot videos. |
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| We practiced our shapes by making a shape robot. |
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| Each student spun the spinner, told us the shape and added that shape to our shape robot. |
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| We practiced counting using robots, bolts, washers, screws, etc. |
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| Here is our class robot we made with recycled materials! |
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| We practiced drawing robots. |
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| We practiced recognizing our last names by answering the question....Do you like robots? |
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| We matched keys to locks. |
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| We practiced building the letter R for robot. We built it with wooden pieces, then traced it and turned it into a robot. |
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| We used googly eyes, screws, paper clips and pipe cleaners to make robots in playdoh. |
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| Library time |
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| Here is Mip, my robot!! |
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| We traced and colored robots! |
