How are your eyes working?
Happy Thursday (2/15) everyone and welcome back for another super funny day in Flowers Class. We played and learned a lot today, and we hope that you will enjoy following our adventures!
MORNING ACTIVITIES
When we arrived at school this morning, we found out that our teachers prepared a lot of activities but as always we started with our daily crafts. At one table we kept on making our special gifts for Dad’s Day. It’s a surprise so we can’t really tell you what it is, but we used a lot of decorations and glue to make them really pretty. Then, divided into groups, we worked on our food shops and made a banner for the sushi one. B. wrote “Flowers sushi shoshop” because it was funnier than just “shop”. G., Y., T., S. and C. decorated it by drawing everything that you find in a sushi shop, like fish, maki rolls and rice everywhere. Meanwhile, the friends from the Pizza/Spaghetti shop made an oven out of a huge cardboard box and painted it In Black. S., A. and C. spent a long time painting it until everything was black. That was fun!
Of course, we also had a lot of toys to play with; like cork-boards with nails and hammers and puzzles. V. was proud of the little house she made from the wooden shapes that she nailed down on the cork-board. She even said: “is Mommy’s house”. O. and T. played together with the puzzles. They managed to complete one and were really proud when they showed it to their friends and teachers.
Oh no, we had so much fun that we didn’t realize that the time was passing fast. We got ready for our snack and had dance class with Maryna. We can’t wait for our daddies to see our show, they will love our dances!
Then we headed out to Step Park and played a lot, the weather was nice and sunny. While playing, we even took our jackets because it was really warm. Then we went back to school and got ready for our circle time.
CIRCLE TIME
We gathered in circle and waited nicely until our teacher told us about today’s circle time. We started by singing our “Cookie Jar song” to remember how to properly sit in the classroom. In that song, we always ask our friends what kind of taste they would like their cookies to have:
R.: Chocolate.
T.: Strawberry.
V.: Watermelon cookies.
M.: Rainbow, it tastes like everything.
K.: Grape cookie!
Then, Axel asked three Flowers friends to come to the whiteboard and draw the shapes of their eyes.
M.: It’s a circle.
E. No, it’s more like an oval.
S.: Circle.
T.: It looks like an eyeball! Do you know I ate an eyeball before? It was a gummy.
H.: In here, we have a muscle. But why is it hard? The bone?
C.: This part is the eyeball.
R.: Why is everyone not the same color eye?
B.: Because of the yellow and the blue from your parents. If one has more yellow, then it will be different.
M.: Actually, we have hair because the hair will protect us from something that is hard.
C.: We have this one (eyebrows) so when we take a shower, we don’t get soap in your eye.
After, our teacher asked us about our homework. How is called the colored part of the eye? It seems that our Flowers friends weren’t sure about it, so he gave us the answer: The Iris.
B.: Also, the outside has goo to protect the eyeball. When you look at it, it’s upside down, but your brain changes it to normal.
Then, we moved on to the Question of the Day. We asked our friends to read us and M. told us: “Do you know how our eyes work?”
T.: Behind your eye, something is behind there, and it helps you move your eyes.
A.: I don’t know.
B.: Muscles!
It seems like our Flowers friends had an idea about it, so our teacher showed us a picture of an eye and explained to us that the eye has several parts in it. The first one was the sclera, the white part that acts as a jacket to protect our eyes.
E.: A jacket for our eyes?!
C.: Once I drew a brain and it looked like an eye. What is the green thing doing for your eye.
The iris? Good question C.!
R.: So is not white and white!
S.: Brown.
Then what is your Iris for?
E.: I don’t know, but my mom said that the middle of the eye is called the pupil.
Maybe we can ask that to our mommies and daddies tonight. What do you think the iris is for?
TELL AND SHARE
Before going to lunch, some of our friends wanted to share about things they brought from home.
B. started by showing us her stethoscope.
B.: I buy this one. A stethoscope, it’s a real one.
M.: Is that from your Chinese New Year?
B.: Yeah!
T.: Is it a real one or a toy?
B.: A real one.
G.: Where you buy it?
B.: At a shop close to Ohana.
Then E. shared a drawing that he did at home.
E.: I draw a picture of three sea animals!
G.: Where you draw that?
E.: At my home!
K.: Are you draw in home?
E.: Yes!
It was already time for us to go to lunch, but before that we played a guessing game where you had to guess whose eyes were on the pictures and it was fun. Our Flowers friends are really good at observing and guessing!
Thank you so much for following our daily adventures and see you tomorrow for more!
Lot of Love,
Children from the Flowers Class.