{"id":2538,"date":"2024-01-28T08:46:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T15:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2024-01-28T08:46:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T15:46:22","slug":"skin-tones-and-slime-junior-kindergarteners-week-of-discovery-and-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/2024\/01\/skin-tones-and-slime-junior-kindergarteners-week-of-discovery-and-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin Tones and Slime: Junior Kindergarteners&#8217; Week of Discovery and Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s [changing color] because it\u2019s warm.\u201d Junior Kindergarten scientists and social thinkers this week explored skin tones, bodies, and slime, noticing and sharing their observations, and using these to develop questions and invent stories. In the garden, they made slime from four <em>ingredients<\/em>, following a recipe together and using various tools to measure and mix. \u201cI remember what [the ingredient] looked like. But not what it\u2019s called. It looked clean, but it wasn\u2019t water.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>It looked clean, but it wasn\u2019t water.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Playing with the slime throughout the week, they noticed things like how it can form bubbles, how it dries out when you leave a thin layer on the bin, and how the color changes when you play with a small piece for a long time. They noted some slime had gone missing and generated ideas about what might have happened: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMaybe kindergarten didn\u2019t have any and they wanted some to look at.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, \u201cmaybe it went to meet Bear-Bear!\u201d (Bear Bear is in South Korea this week with a classmate and this idea of the slime also traveling sparked many other ideas and also wonderings like, \u201cMaybe Bear-Bear comes alive when no one is looking, like in my backpack!\u201d) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their read-alouds this week, students are exploring differences in skin tone and body. They read <em>Bodies Are Cool<\/em> (Tyler Feder), and <em>Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race<\/em> (Megan Madison and Jessica Ralli). They each worked with a teacher to mix paints for their own skin tone, writing the ingredients and naming their own skin tone\u2019s color. Next up, they will draw and share something they love about their unique body. Junior kindergarten builds broad exposure to the myriad wonders of our physical and social worlds, and reinforces confidence, sense of self and appreciation for others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s [changing color] because it\u2019s warm.\u201d Junior Kindergarten scientists and social thinkers this week explored skin tones, bodies, and slime, noticing and sharing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,20,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curriculum-connections","category-lower-school","category-science"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/jk-skin-color.png?fit=1224%2C918","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}