E- eggs and Easter

I missed posting some pictures from the week before Spring Break.

 We floated eggs in salt water and watched how the sink in non-salt water.  We discussed how the salt helps the water hold up the eggs because the salt makes the water more dense.

We painted with jelly beans.  And made eggshell mosaic art.

We read a cute little book about an imaginative bunny.

I- Inches

This week we focused short I sound.   We learned that I the inch worm says /i/.

We practiced measuring and we made our own tape measure.  We wrote numbers on a strip of paper and wrapped them around a pencil and put them in a toilet paper roll.  The kids were getting frustrated with them because they were difficult to wrap back up. I didn't worry about sending them home because the kids didn't really like them very much.  Luckily they were fun and educational to make.  We will experiment with them more next week.

We weighed and measured objects around the classroom.  We discussed less and more.  

We discussed longer and shorter and developed an awareness of different measurement lengths such as centimeter, inch, foot, yard.  This will require more practice but the 

 We did a fun alphabet review with a twister mat.   I wrote the letters on the mat and they had to match the lowercase letter to the uppercase letter.   They also hopped through the alphabet.

 One of our favorite activities on the shelf is the salt tray.  The kids love to write and draw in the salt.  This is an easy activity you can do at home.   Draw a simple design or line on another piece of paper and have your child copy the design into the salt.  It is skill building and relaxing.

W- weather, wind, water

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 We observed a simple water cycle in a plastic bag.  We put warm water in a bag and watched the water evaporate and condensate on the sides like a cloud. 

We made a water fall with different containers on a board. We observed what happens when the water falls from the different containers. The kids said "Wow, cool its like the water cycle."  We experimented a little to see what happens when we put different containers in different places.

We made clouds in a bottle. We put water in bottle, put shaving cream on top, put colored water into the shaving cream. When it gets full like a cloud, the colored water falls into the clear water like rain. We talked about how clouds are made up of dust particles and moisture.  When the clouds get heavy they drop down like rain.  Very cool science experiment. 

We acted out little red riding hood.  This story doesn't have much to do with weather but its a great classic story that teaches us to obey our parents and not talk to strangers.

We also each drew put the water cycle in our notebooks.

U- under the ground

As part our under the ground unit we dug in the dirt and found worms and plant roots.  We read and acted out the Carrot Seed and Jack and the Beanstalk.
We put lima beans in bags with wet paper towels so we can watch them grow. 
We made trees and learned all the different parts- roots, trunk, branches, leaves.

As part of Earth Day, we sorted recyclables.  We will be talking more about earth day next week too.

We ate "dirt with worm" -- cookie crumbs and gummy worms.

As part of Earth Day we sorted recyclables.  We will talking more about Earth Day next week too.

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