Observation: WeeK#9

During this weeks observation, I felt like I walked into the wrong room. It was amazing! Room 5 had totally transformed over the Veteran's Day holiday. They had many new furniture pieces, rugs, and toys. The room was rearranged and transformed. It was so nice to see how excited the children were when they entered, it was like they haven't see the room before (even though this was the thrid day of the week.) I also stepped into Room 6 to se etheir transformation, and oh my goodness what a good sight. Change definitely does wonders to anybody's perspective. It makes you feel fresh and new.

One activity that they did, was going out side to measure the Bloomer's garden. At circle time, they red a short story out of the Bloomer's binder. They then went to the table and drew what they thought or remembered of the story. Then they went our into the garden and used magnify glasses and looked at the plants and eveything they wanted for a little while. They were then brought over to the Bloomer's garden and measured each child to it to see if it was taller than any of them. The children all laughed when the teacher measured herself. It was a different, yet fun activity.

If I pursued the actvity into the next day I would incooperate some more science activities with the magnify glass sinc they were so interested, or even some more measurement activities since the children don't do as much as math activites versus any other activity. Materials that could be provided would be numbered rulers, or string to see how big things are. Also, some scales ould be fun, they could see how much different things around the classroom weigh.

YaY!!....We are almost done!! :) Have a good weekend!