How to Make Lemonade

One of the children brought a lemon into school and wanted to make lemonade.

The children were asked, "How do we make lemonade?" Some of them showed it on paper.

The boy in this picture used a whiteboard to draw how to make lemonade. It's a picture of a machine used to get the juice out of the lemonade.

And that is what we did. We made lemonade.

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Tape Man

Some of the children put blue tape over their mouth. Usually I would have said something like, "Take the tape off your mouth. It's not for putting on your mouth." Instead I thought of Tape Man (with some pride, being from New Zealand). I thought of creativity. I thought of art. So we sat together for whole group time, some with tape on their mouth. I said, "I've got something to show you." When they first say him one of them said, "It's scary." I reassured them that it's not too scary and that he's being funny. So they started to laugh. Pretty soon there was no more tape on mouths (not that I minded if there was, it's just hard to laugh). Thank you Tape Man for reminding us that creativity begins with exploration in play.

Pots for Drums

There were only 7 music instruments (a hand drum, a wooden xylophone, a triangle, castanets, cymbals and a shaker) so one of the children picked up two of the metal pots that were in the Home Center to use. Innovation, sense of community, problem solving. The children then followed the leader who had the triangle while a familiar song "The Ants Go Marching" was played.

Pouring Skills

We'd finished adding vinegar to baking soda and watched it froth up over the sides of a tiny glass jar. After we'd finished, the children played with the mixture. One of the boys found a funnel to help him pour. They were given one rule: pour over a tray. The rule was only broken a couple of times.

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