A Moment In Time

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Snow Much Fun

Isn't it interesting how icebergs look blue? 

We think so. We added a bit of blue food colouring to the 

snow in the sensory bin. 

We made some arctic animals available.

The children, as they always do, came up with their own ideas.

Measuring and shape making and scooping was they way to go!

Jackson braved the cold cold snow and made a frozen alphabet. After making his letters, he set them outside. With the arctic cold temperatures, we'll have frozen letters in no time.

Hmmmm....what would frozen alphabet soup taste like?

Chicken Soup Is So Nice!

In November's gusty gale

I will flop my flippy tail

And spout hot soup

 I'll be a whale

Spouting once, spouting twice

Spouting chicken soup with rice.

~ Maurice Sendak ~ 

 

November's gusty gale blew a community friend into the 

wonderful world of kindergarten.

Dr. Lenna Morgan, who had helped Mrs. Brent tend the roof top garden in the summer time, came by for a visit. She is a paediatrician.

 That means she is a doctor that takes care of children.

Together with the junior chefs, marvelous garden vegetables were used to make chicken soup. All we can say is....

"More please!"

 

The first thing we did was debone the chicken that Mrs. Brent had prepared the evening before.

 

 The children were very interested in the bones. 

 

 Some bones were big and some were small. We touched the hard areas of our bodies to feel our bones beneath our skin. We guessed which chicken bones were for legs or wings.

 

 We rounded our backs and felt the bumps of our spine when we discovered the spine bone of the chicken.

 

 We started to sing about BONES!
Click the link and sing along too.

Now it was time to prepare the vegetables. We peeled the carrots away from ourselves.

The carrots were cut into bite size pieces.

All the vegetables, including celery and onion, were put into a pot to cook and soften up.

While they were cooking, it was time to spice things up!

Thyme and oregano did the trick. The spices were added to the chicken and chicken broth.

At just the right time, the carrots and onion and celery were also added to the chicken and chicken broth.

Whoever made the saying `too many cooks spoil the broth` doesn`t know about teamwork!

Some of our friends know Dr. Morgan from her doctor's office. What fun to make a pot of soup with her!


After all the vegetables and spices were added to the chicken and broth, enough water was added to fill the pot up. 

A secret ingredient was also added.

It rhymes with gemon gest. Can you guess what this yellow ingredient is?The chicken soup simmered and filled the air with a delicious aroma!
Many people visited our room to find out what the delicious smell was!

Our final two ingredients were alphabet noodles and spinach.
The spinach leaves were chopped up. They got added just before the soup was served. 
 
So did the noodles.
The children made sure to add the letters of their names.

There really is nothing like a healthy homemade bowl of chicken soup! It got a great stamp of approval from Dr. Morgan and an even bigger stamp of approval from the children...and the teachers. YUM!

The children loved Dr. Morgan's special touches and helping hand.

She makes soup, "better than even Tim Horton's!"

Click below for a rousing rendition of Maurice Sendak's Chicken Soup With Rice.

Chicken Soup With Rice by Maurice Sendak

Just before Dr. Morgan left, Nathan was exploring the play stethoscope. That gave us a great idea!

Can you guess what Dr. Morgan thought?

 What does your heart sound like when you listen with a stethoscope?

 

Dr. Morgan can't wait to come back and visit again. Next time she is going to bring many of her doctor tools...

...and a new favourite recipe!

A big thank you to Dr. Morgan for a very special visit!

Ice Ice A B!

It became crystal clear that, after the light table, the next stop for our colourful upper case letters was the freezer. After all, we wanted to keep in tune with our latest gift from Mother Nature! Cold, Colder, Coldest, Frozen Solid!!!

We set out squirt bottles, eye droppers and the letters... encased in ice. Some words were posted on the board and chenille sticks, pencils and paper were available. The letters had holes for stringing together.

Some of the letters spelled words.

There were containers that had frozen completely and others that had not. Water was trapped inside along with the letters.

One container had coloured water that slowly mixed in as the ice melted. 

Imprints were left in the ice where letters had been.

Some children broke letters out with their fingers and others squirted them out.

 "I'm getting all the D's. You get the B's!"

Abby worked at getting the letters out with an eye dropper. Other children searched the water for the letters they wanted to spell their names or one of the posted words… and some made words of their own.

Hmmm… Maybe Ireland is letting us know what we’ll be doing next!

Creating an alphabet wall

We were excited to find a surprise in the mail this week! Some very special art supplies arrived so the children could help co-construct alphabet letters at the art studio that will be used to create a giant alphabet name wall!

We used a premade paper mache kit that was easy to use. The children just had to cut the pieces into the right length, moisten them, and apply them to a pre-written letter on paper. Once the letters are dry we will paint them and hang them in our new classroom!