This week we continued studying germs. Children represented germs through drawings. This curiosity emerged several weeks ago when we wanted to encourage proper and thorough hand washing technique by reading the book, “Mean, Dirty, Downright Disgusting, but Invisible Germs.” The children were fascinated by the illustrator’s depiction of what the germ for each illness might looks like. Children drew germs of their own. A curiosity also emerged. What is ‘invisible?’
“You can’t see it.” -Joseph
“Put powers in it and it makes it invisible.” -Asher
“It disappears. It goes somewhere else.” -Max
“Invisible means you can’t see somethings like germs. The wind makes the germs go on your hand.” –Thais
During morning meeting, we reviewed the children’s drawings from the day before. Joseph began telling us about his microscope. “I have a microscope. Microscopes help you see stuff that’s really little like your cells.” This began a discussion about scopes.
“A scope means a telescope is really far and it brings them really close. Microscope means you can see stuff really little, but not far.” -Joseph
“A scope is like you can look in outer space to look at the aliens and stars and planets and the people on the planets.” -Cassie
“There’s a red button like my brother’s.” -Claudia
“A scope is something to look at starts and planets.” -Geri
“I put my face there to see the eye of the dinosaur.”
-Chiezue
“My brother has a telescope. You can look out of the tiny hole and you see whatever you want on there.” -Claudia
“Mickey Mouse had a telescope too to look for Minnie Mouse.” -Effy
“A seascape can see underwater and see fish and floating trash. I was on a boat and I saw floating trash.” -Oliver
Salsa Making
“My onion. Daddy give it to me.” -Iyron
“Tomatoes. I can smell it all day. Mmm.” -Hazel
