Church Kitchen Exploration & Classroom Happenings

Today, the Brown Room children spent time in two groups. Each group got to tour the church kitchen and also take advantage of playing in the classroom with only a few other children. The exploration of the church kitchen was a rich experience! The children thought about that kitchen compared to their own kitchens, explored tools, learned new vocabulary, enjoyed munching on ice and much more! 

Group 1: Maren, Ada, Palmer and Olivia

Group 2: Oliver, Ellie, Cannon and Wolf

Tools explored: spatula, whisk, can opener, ice cream scoop, stove, colander, oven, ice maker.
Concepts explored: temperature, colanders/draining water, size and quantity.
(The church has many large kitchen items for preparing large quantities of food.)

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In the classroom...

There was some play in the kitchen:

Some Candyland:

And some painting:

Painting conversations: Cannon, Oliver, Ellie and Wolf
Cannon: Brown!
Ellie: I have brown too.
Oliver: I'm putting tower! LOOK AT THE TOWER!
Ellie: I'm building a home, my home. Blue!
Wolf: I was a dinosaur at home. And then Cedar have a bee.
Cannon: Grrr, Rawr, I'm a dinosaur!
Ellie (laughs): Ahh!
Cannon: I hear the church bell.
Oliver: The bell's ringing outside.
Cannon: It's raining.
Oliver: It's snowing.
Cannon: Mixing....
Later...
Wolf: I'm making a big rainbow. Look how big it's getting!
Oliver: The tower's gonna fall. Does the crane help it?
Wolf: My paint getting bigger.