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Monday, May 21, 2018

PreSchool: From Giants and Spiders to Courage and Cookies

We have been busy in PreSchool STEAM!
Jack and the Beanstalk
After reading the many versions of the story, we got busy...planting seeds, looking at life cycles, transplanting seedlings, counting seeds, measuring plants, working with scale - our size vs. the Giant, engineering, planning, designing, painting, reading, comparing, painting, and more!


The Preschool Students are learning about insects and spiders.  We learned this song:
sang to the tune of "I'm a little teapot."

I'm a little insect with 6 legs,
We don't have a heart but we all lay eggs.
My body has 3 parts, yeah, 3 not 10,
A THORAX a HEAD and an ABDOMEN!

During STEAM time we hiked the TCS campus in search of items to create our "Spider-arium"
We found a spider and put it in the Spiderarium for observations.  It spun a web!



Choose Love!

The whole TCS community is adopting the "Choose Love" movement by Scarlett Lewis and PreSchool is no exception!

We learned the 1st of the 4 ingredients in Choosing Love which is COURAGE!
We learned how to take a "brave breath" which might come in handy while learning about spiders!


We measured, mixed and baked up some yummy 
"Choose Love" sugar cookies.


We learned a brand new song by Jill Nesi, not yet released! The song is all about our emotions.


Click here to see the video! →  Emotions Matter

Thursday, May 3, 2018

The Magic of STEAM!

Click on the link below
to see 3 minutes and 33 seconds of the lastest
PreSchool, Kindergarten and 1st Grade STEAM activites.
The MAGIC of STEAM!

Day 5 STEAM in the Kitchen

Click on the link below to see day 5 (Homemade Ice Cream Lab) Click here to see Day 5