Preschool
Ms. Renee Brohamer & Ms. Lily Tajalli Since our return from the winter holidays we have been very busy and time is flying by. We began the New Year with our science unit on simple machines. The children built and explored many examples of these useful tools. The children experimented with wheels and axles, gears, pulleys, incline planes, screws, levers, and wedges. They built model sets of each type to gain first hand experience of how they work and how they make every day jobs easier. The children were also introduced to the terms gravity, force, effort, load, push and pull. In art the children explored paintings by some of the masters like Renoir, Monet and Degas. We also looked at some of the work done by Georges Seurat and everyone tried their own hand at the technique of Pointillism. We have been combining our weekly cooking projects with our social studies. We explored all the continents of the world and we had a wonderful time making a dish to represent each continent. We cooked and sampled food from all over the globe. We made and ate “Columbian Arepas” representing South America. We had “Lentil Rice” to represent Asia, This was a dish Ms. Lily learned to make while living in Iran. We had “Pasta with Red Sauce” to represent Italy and Europe, Moroccan “Vegetarian Couscous” for Africa, and “Anzac Biscuits” for Australia. This month we are learning about the Caribbean, we made and ate “Bahamian Coconut Candy”, fried Grouper, “Jamaican Banana Bread” and Caribbean Lobster. Yum, yum, learning about the world is delicious!