We've done several really cool science experiments this week as well as documenting the changes in our own. One of our favorites was th cabbage juice - baking soda - vinegar one. See if your child can tell you about it!
We also looked at surface tension in an experiment called "Nervous Colors" --I'll attach a "recipe" for that one. The next day we made our own magnifying lenses with a drop of water on weed paper. We put the waxed paper on top of a piece of newspaper so we could see the world. The surface tenstion held the drop of water in a little ball and magnified the words! Pretty cool!
This week our focus was on Benjamin Franklin, a fascinating fellow!
He did so many different things in his life that our author, Alki, titled her book The Many Lives Of Benjamin Franklin. His experiments with electricity are legendary (that even made it into our riddles).
We're also looking at many versions of The Three Pigs to see how one story can CHANGE! We have some great versions!
Another really neat thing we did this week was to total the number of jumps everyone did in PE with jump ropes. Mrs.P wrote down everyone's jump number then each child collected that number of unifix cubes and put them in groups of tens and ones. Then we sat in a big circle and collected each child's sets of cubes, adding them together to build the total. All together the class did 442 jumps! WOW! Actually DOING the collecting, moving from ones to tens to hundreds, help the nebulous math concepts make sense. It was pretty amazing!
We've anxious to graph the information on who was President when each generation of your family was born. We still need a few more papers to do so. Keep "tuned" for further info!!!
We worked on birthday graphs this week as well. It's a very interesting spread with some very sweet faces!
Have a great weekend. I can't believe we're at the end of January! We'll do our CHANGES documentation one more week... very interesting!