Here is a little glimpse into what we have been doing for science. I added in a little snow work when we had snow on the ground (but I brought it inside in buckets, it was way to cold to take them out).
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| We are learning about archeologist's and paleontologists in science. Here our future scientists are digging for dinosaur bones and fossils thanks to the dollar store and some plaster of Paris! |
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| The students had to figure out what tools they needed and how to use them to carefully excavate the treasures inside. |
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| They were so excited when they started to actually "dig down" to the bones, shells and rocks. |
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| Thank you to all of the parents who sent in newspaper! We are finally able to start our volcano building project. This will take us a few weeks, but everyone is so excited to start constructing our paper mache volcano! |
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| The students have been doing research by consulting our volcano books in our classroom library. They study the pictures (for form) before starting to shape their volcano. |
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| These girls are working together to create the volcano. The children are in charge of negotiating how many people can work at this center at a time, they refill the glue and water mixture themselves and they cut up the newspaper themselves. They are learning to work in cooperative groups, negotiate tasks, solve problems and divide responsibilities. And they just think they are having fun! |
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| This volcano will be reading to paint on Monday. Some of the students are thinking about adding trees and dinosaurs. They thought about adding more scenery after researching through the volcano books in our classroom library. They are so smart! |
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| Another very popular science activity is working with the test tubes and performing experiments using different colored water, vinegar, salt, baking soda and the eye droppers. Thank you again for all of the support to get these materials donated through our Donor's Choose projects this year! |
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| More science experiments in progress. |
