Welcome to our first week exploring “Builders and Engineers!”
This week, we read books called “Construction,” “Building Our House,” “Dig, Dump, Roll,” “I Want To Be An Engineer,” “Builders and Breakers,” “Rose’s Big Bridge Experiment,” and more. We made our own mini books about construction equipment as well as about the different rooms in our houses.
We worked together to build various structures using manipulatives like magnet-tiles, Duplo blocks, and Unifix cubes. We also used recycled materials, plastic bottles, and clay to design and construct our own imaginative buildings. After reading “Building Our House,” we created our own blueprints and building plans, thinking like real architects and engineers as we decided what to include in our designs.
For our cooking activity this week, we made sandwiches with bread, ham, lettuce, cheese, tomato, and mayonnaise. We layered each ingredient and spread mayonnaise onto the bread to hold it all together.
Outside the classroom, we tried our hand at the new obstacle course, jumping over hurdles and weaving through hoops. We collaborated to rearrange the pieces and create new courses. On Wednesday, Coach Evan led a soccer class and introduced tennis balls and footballs to explore how different types of balls move during gross motor play.
Next week, we will continue our study of “Builders and Engineers” and learn about the responsibilities of architects, engineers, and construction workers.
Students built a variety of structures throughout the week.
Students colored pictures of different rooms in a house and matched each room with the appropriate piece of furniture.
Students worked together to mold clay onto a plastic bottle and decorate it with colorful beads to represent a building.
Students cut and pasted keys to match each corresponding color.
Students decorated a design of a house.
Students built three-dimensional structures with wooden sticks and clay.
Students spread mayonnaise on two slices of bread and layered ham, lettuce, cheese, and tomato in between.
This week, students enjoyed playing on the new obstacle course on the playground and practiced kicking soccer balls with Coach Evan on Wednesday.
