Dentist Office Field Trip

We had http://www.sacchildrensdentist.com/ out for our yearly visit. The children got to learn about "sugar bugs", brushing and flossing.

They met "Dora the Explorer" she counts the teeth and checks for "sugar bugs"

They got to go grocery shopping and decide if things were healthy or unhealthy.

For more information you can visit there webpage or give them a call. They have a gorgeous office in Citrus Heights and do some unique things to make it special for kids such as noisless drills, they have silly names for everything like a "car wash" when your teeth care being cleaned. Sunglasses for kids to wear during exams and really cool themed mural rooms.

Toe Jam

No paintbrushes! No finger paint! Dip your toes into the bowl and paint, paint, paint, till you got no more.

Inspired by one of our favorite books.

We are not finished with this project but couldn't wait to give you a sneak peak of different ways we use our mind to paint around here. Check out our wall display in a few weeks to see some paintings done by the children that correspond to one of our favorite books.

Easter Party

Chalk, Slugs and Friends

Natural Discovery

This is a wonderful example. Children are able to explore and use equipment in the classroom how they see fit. On this day one child brought a small prism into the block area and accidentally(so I believe) set it in the sun. Soon there was a flurry of children gathered around explaining what they discovered. The experimented moving the prism around in the different sun spots until......

....they discovered it casts light and made a triangle.

One quick twist.........and.........

the discovery had been made...........a RAINBOW!

Along came a spider ......

...............and sat down beside her....


After studying the ants the children noticed the legs look like spider legs. We got our spider box and compared the spiders to the ants. We counted all the legs on the spiders and all of them had 8.

We remembered that ants on have 6.

Drawing our spiders just right. Counting the legs to make sure there are 8.

Picking out colors to match the spiders.

Antworks

Day 1 ants added

Day 2 1st tunnel made


Day 3 - A litle City has begun