Working Together

Today we began with a brief morning meeting. We talked about our current building study and what we know about building and what we would like to learn about building. After reading a book called "Building A House", we listed some questions we had about how to build a house and what types of jobs are needed to create a house. These thoughtful questions will be useful inspiration for further research and projects within our Building Topic!

An interesting activity we started today was our observational drawings in our Herb Journals.

These wonderful little journals have supported our science oriented Cardinals in their experiment expressions. We asked them to sit down with their Herb Jars and look at what they notice about the contents. Interesting ideas that these young scientists observed and recorded were a change in color of the oil and even a change in how many of the herbs inside were floating and sinking.

We look forward to continuing our observation journals over the next several days.

Music with Jason today was a special adventure. We jumped right into the songs we have been working on and did an excellent job showing off our beautiful singing voices, even for some visitors who had come to tour and observe our school today. The Cardinals, as gracious hosts to these visitors, not only showed how much they have been learning with Jason, but even included our guests in their welcome song, asking them to join our circle for some of our activities!

In addition to our beautiful singing voices, we demonstrated our abilities of musical expression through movement when we created "hand fish" to "swim to the music" of a classical piece. We were then able to include scarves to help express the flowing nature of the music through our movements.

 On top of all of these activities, the Cardinals took a journey down to the cafeteria this morning. We followed the clues our noses gave us all the way to the basement where the cafeteria is located.

Once there, we were able to see where the older members of our community go to eat and met some of the wonderful people who take care of our AFS family through their skills in the kitchen. We asked interesting questions such as what kinds of food they were making for lunch today, and discussed the cooking process.

Through our conversation, the Cardinals' have even decided on doing a baking experiment looking at what happens to batter when it's baked and why we heat batters in ovens rather than freeze them or put them in the refrigerator to created baked goods.

Our ever enthusiastic scientist-Cardinals were excited to hypothesize possible outcomes to this new experiment.

After our adventure we stopped in the cafeteria and had our snack at the tables like the big kids at AFS!