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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 Y, it's sound and items that began with Y, we also practiced X.
* 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 and big 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, googly eyes and pipe cleaners to make robots in playdoh
* Created a giant class robot using various recycled materials!

* Created a robot using shapes

* Wrote in our journals about what our special power we would have if we were robots

* Stomped on different sized cups based on the book, Smash Bot

* Pretended to be a broom bot by painting with brooms

*Watched Ms. Ginny's real robot dance, his name is Mip

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

Questions to ask your child:
1. When is your birthday?
2. What letter does robot start with?
3. What special thing did Ms. Ginny's robot, Mip, do? (danced to music, whistled)

4. In the book Robot Rumpus, what did cook-bot put in the bathtub? (spaghetti or french fries)
5. How do you power robots? (plug them into outlet, batteries, charger, turn a key)

6. What did we smash in the gym based on our Smash Bot book? (cups)

7. What did we have to do to get Mip the robot to dance? (clap our hands)

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/ 7 Tuesday- Profession Development -No School

4/13 and 4/15-parent teacher conferences

4/18 LECC /family Garden Day 9:00-11:00

4/25 Spring Fair 10:00-12:00 at LECC

We are excited to share the photos of the hippos having fun with ROBOTS this week!

We also finished up our desert unit.

Our silhouette cactus.

We spun the spinner, named the shape and added it to make our robot.

My daughter, Katherine, came to visit and play at center time.
We enjoyed watching Mip the robot dance and whistle.

I am as tall as the robot.

Matching robots.

Gears and snap bots

Matching nuts and bolts.

Placing the correct number of bolts to
match the number on the robot.

Gears

Our sensory table contained magnets and items.
Some stuck to the magnet and some did not.

We measured how tall the robot was with unifix cubes.
We then counted them.

The hippos loved unlocking and using combinations
to work this puzzle.

Sit and Spin fun!

After reading Smash Bot, we had fun smashing
different sized cups!

We colored flowers to add to the grass we made last week
in art class.

We recognized then glued on shapes to make
Shape Bot.

We had to spin the spinner to see which
shape we would glue on to make our robot.

Show and Tell

We placed bolt and screws in parmesan robot containers.
We used the big opening and the smaller circle openings.

It was fun to color and cut a robot picture.

Look what we made at the writing center!

We used pipe cleaners, screws, paper clips, googly eyes, washers
and playdoh to make robots.

Look at my robot!

We put these magnet pieces together to make
cool robots.

We signed in and chose if we likes robots or not.

We practiced extending robot patterns.

My family!

Look what I made!

Here is the picture of the students eating snack and
watching the show they earned by using teamwork to
clean up.

After reading Robot Rumpus, we painted with brooms.
We were broom bots!

We matched the different kinds of robots
in the book, Robot Rumpus.

Robot Puzzles

The students enjoyed building with little legos.

Journal-What special power would you have if you were a robot?

Look at my cool robot I made.

We matched the letters in the word ROBOT.

We used a bunch of recycled
materials to make our class robot.

We used a bunch of materials to fill in the faces of these robots.

We matched keys to locks. They were numbered and
the kids had to match the numbers to open the locks.

Ms. Micah watched the students trace the robots.

Happy birthday, Ellie!

After counting these spines (toothpicks), we added them
to our saguaro cactus (foam noodle). We had to roll a
numbered dice to find out how many spines we were to add
to the cactus.