Mrs. Garrow's and Mrs. Beselaere's FDK Class: September 2015

Sunday, September 20, 2015

We Are Spending A Lot Of Time Working On Fine-Motor Activities In September

Will A Coconut Float?

We continued exploring the properties of coconuts. When we "wondered" about coconuts the day the coconut was introduced, there was lots of chatter about coconuts being heavy/light. We posed the question of whether a coconut would sink or float. This lead into an exciting experiment and we spent an additional day exploring the concept of sinking and floating with objects in our water table.

Fun With Coconuts!

We were working on the letter Cc and the children were also really enjoying the book Chicka Boom Boom. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to bring a coconut into our classroom! We encouraged the children to talk about this interesting object. Many children told us they already knew lots of facts about coconuts. The children were absolutely fascinated by the sound of liquid jostling around as they shook the coconut. We heard many great theories about this liquid and soon we had lots of requests to "smash open the coconut" and get the liquid out!

The next day we brainstormed how to do so and we were extremely curious about how to manage the very hard shell. We saw a brief video about opening coconuts and we tired the approach we had observed. It worked!

The children really wanted to see what the inside of a coconut looks like. We decided to continue using the hammer!

Yummy Applesauce!

Looking For The "Magic Star" and Apple Prints

We kicked off our "Alphabet Bootcamp" on Monday and we followed up with some apple fun to reinforce the letter Aa. We read a book about apples and the children learned that there is a star shape inside of apples. We just had to explore that fascinating idea! And, as you will see in another post, we decided to make applesauce!