Today was such a nice day, my mom and I decided to venture south to San Mateo to grab lunch and hang out. After we got a bite to eat we decided to take a little walk to get some sunshine. The Japanese Tea Garden was closed, but right next to it was the rose garden. We enjoyed our time sitting on the benches in the sun and chatting. There were so many different kinds of roses. They were super pretty and smelled amazzzziiing! Here are some of the ones that especially caught my eye.
xoxo,e
The other day I made my first steak. To some, it might be something simple, but for me, it wasn’t something that I would usually do. BUT, I do have to say that it turned out extremely good and I want to make it again, and again, and again!!
First, I gathered sea salt, grapeseed oil. pepper, paprika, thyme, garlic, and butter.
Next, I seasoned the meat with salt, pepper, and , paprika.
Then, I coated the pan with grapeseed oil and placed the meat in the pan.
Then, I added the garlic, thyme, and butter. I basted the melted butter onto the steak.
viola!
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As I have been looking through videos I stumbled across this one. Two years ago, I went to Korea with the besties. Its was my first time in Korea and it was interesting to see their culture, eat their food, and see their fashion. This is a video of people playing music near our Air BnB.
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Here are a few of the boats the friends made from the prior week’s activity.
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“Moana Canoe”
“It’s a steam boat that goes really fast. It carries fruits and vegetables because it can’t carry people because of the virus.”
“I am going to sail my boat home.”
Today’s focus was science and experiments. Using the project from earlier in the week, I connected the following project by incorporating the same materials, and ideas from the previous videos. This is a huge aspect of the Reggio philosophy, and allows children to continue to work on something for an extended period of time. Recently, everyone and everything is focused on “the next”, and “quickly”, therefore I really enjoy the Reggio philosophy because it requires thinking, elaborating, and re-using materials.
Anyway, for today’s activity the friends were tasked with testing their boat to see if it sank or floated. In addition, if their boat sank/ floated, they were also tasked with taking their boat apart and testing individual materials to see what they did. If they did something different than the former, the question of “why do you think that happened?” posed.
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Today’s activity consisted of boat construction using found materials, a.k.a. fine motor work. It is very important for children to begin to strengthen the dexterity in their fingers while they are young. By constructing things using taps, scissors, pencils, etc., children are able to improve this skill.
xoxoe
This week, for distance learning I am focusing on a boat project. Though I just use the videos here to keep track of privacy settings for the video and to make sure they are still able to be viewed, i liked boats being used as my provocation so I will share a little more in depth as to what i did.
Each week for distance learning, I make videos that focus on a different learning aspect. This weeks provocation was boats. Each day of the week I make a different video shining light on a different aspect. For example, Monday- literacy, Tuesday- math, Wednesday- fine motor, Thursday- Science, Friday- movement.
Below, I will share the math portion of my boat curriculum. The friends were tasked with thinking about materials they can find around their house they could use to construct a boat. After collecting the items, they were tasked with making a list and measuring each of the items they were to use. On my curriculum board I added questions such as “What does sink/ float" mean?”, Which materials are the longest? etc. In doing this, the friends could become more familiar with number recognition, and other mathematical concepts like length, geometry, and texture.
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