Archive for May 2008

Yesterday we went to the Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Association’s Buttinger Nature Center.

As always, the highlights were the turtles and Mrs. Linden holding a SNAKE!

We were lucky to see the mud turtle with an egg! We watched her carry it around her tank, then EAT it!

Check out their website, it’s a WONDERFUL place.

www.thewatershed.org

More photos in the image gallery!

Here’s what the children especially liked:

JY: I liked looking at the big turtle and the one that was running FAST!
PL: The toy frogs and the fast turtle, too.
AbM: The birdhouse.

Numeral recognition, sequencing, eye-hand coordination, eye-foot coordination, balance, bilateral integration of the lower extremities, sharing, turn-taking AND stimulating the brain at the same time! (Try THAT with a worksheet!)

On Thursday, our classroom was “abuzz” with activity! The children took on the various roles that bees have in a hive! The Queen sat in her chair wearing a crown. We had bees that used paper fans to keep the hive at the proper temperature! Our “field bees” flew around to the flowers in the room to gather the “pollen” in their “pollen baskets” on their legs! When they returned to the “hive,” they did a “waggle dance” to tell the other bees where the flowers were! Other bees took the pollen and made it into honey!