For those of you who were wondering whether we had an enormous, construction-paper hot air balloon in the classroom for "H Week", here's your answer. And yes, we did take a Safari over Southern Kenya and float around the Eiffel Tower.
We also made paper-mache Hot Air Ballons on Monday and painted them once they were dry on Wednesday. Colossal mess.. Colossal fun.
The little ones who weren't patient enough to do paper mache got masking taped balloons to paint. Still cool.
Okay, note to self: Always try things that you see on Pinterest BEFORE you have 12 Preschoolers all excited. This was my attempt to fly one of those grocery-bag-hot-air-balloons. It didn't work. My final conclusion is that the air outside of the balloon was nearly the same temperature as the air inside the balloon. Still a good science experiment, but disappointing nevertheless.
Speaking of science experiments, I'm not sure what these two were doing. It definitely had us all laughing though.
Another craft was the Indonesian version of paper-mache stuck onto a piece of wood with a coconut husk basket. Nifty.
At some point in the week the dolphin got tired of being ridden and popped.
After Mavvo gave "S" some flowers he tried to blow it back up for her. So sweet.
Shortly after "E" handed out stickers too all his friends. Such gentlemen we have at illumiNation.
Free time led several kiddos to the chalkboard easel. The cuteness is killer.
The day we paper-mache-ed we had a snack-time picnic. It took a while to get the glue off the tables.
Rotation Time had the kids doing all kinds of activities.
Puzzles
Red-Light Green-Light
The ball squirting game
Playdough
And we made a basket for our paper-mache balloons
There was plenty more fun and a few more crafts that we enjoyed this week too, but it was all too good to stop and take pictures.
We are so blessed to have all these great kids in our life. You guys don't need to go to Kindergarden, just stay here with us. (How do you teachers do this every year? I'm so attached!)
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