Our classmate, Felix, will no longer be attending JK at Park West. This week we offered kids in JK a chance to write him a letter or draw him a picture to say goodbye. We will be sending these letters and notes to Felix and his family. So long Felix, Marc, and Liz, wishing all the best, we will miss you!
Car Wash
On any given day in the classroom, you’ll find many children playing with vehicles. We offer lots of different opportunities for this type of play, and children approach it in a variety of ways. While some build roads and bridges for their cars to drive on, others enact a variety of fantasy games in which cars race, buses drive people around and dump trucks are repeatedly filled then dumped. Vehicle play offers many opportunities for growth as children explore a variety of physical properties, act out familiar scenarios and negotiate materials and ideas with other children.
This week we added vehicles to the water table along with sponges, brushes, soapy water and water wheels and sieves.
Children have enjoyed exploring this car wash set up, using sponges and brushes to wash cars as well as pouring water over the wheels and sieves while cars are underneath, getting cleaned. Some have been engaged in stacking wheels and sieves while others are diligently wiping down cars or squeezing soap bubbles out of sponges. This arrangement has inspired conversations about cleaning, observations about soap and bubbles and collaboration between children as they establish procedures around washing cars.
