Sci-Fri Experiment Ooblek (Again!)

So with every experiment there are some trial runs that go good and bad! I wanted to do the Ooblek experiment again so the students would be able to experience it with MORE cornstarch and less water. So today we made Ooblek again, but used MORE cornstarch and got a much different reaction, from the Ooblek and the students!  

I explained to the students about a Non-Newtonian fluid and then we got our hands dirty.  

Daily 5 Fun!

The students are doing a really great job with using resources around the room to spell words and sound out tricky words.  During Daily 5 I have been seeing a lot of inventive spelling with some tricky words by sounding out the letters!  The students enjoy reading to one another, finding a unique spot to read to themselves and listen to reading is popular.
Overall, the students are loving Daily 5 and are doing a great job!

Hope you enjoy!

Sci-Fri Oobleck Experiment

 We made Oobleck during Sci-Fri! It was such a fun experiment and cool to watch the Non-Newtonian fluid become a liquid and a solid.

 Oobleck is a non-newtonian fluid. That is, it acts like a liquid when being poured, but like a solid when a force is acting on it. You can grab it and then it will ooze out of your hands.  

The students thought this was great!

TRY IT AT HOME!

Start with 1 1/2 cups of cornstarch (the more cornstarch the thicker the Oobleck-your choice!) and then add 1 cup of water. You can always add color with some food coloring as well!

Acting out Snowmen at Night

We read the story Snowmen at Night then we made snowmen masks and acted the story out. In the story, the little boy wonders what snowmen do at night when we are all asleep. He imagines them doing all sorts of fun things like sledding, sipping cold cocoa, having a snowball fight and more. They had a lot of fun acting this story out! We will be uploading the video soon!

 

 

 

Sci-Fri Lava Lamps

 We made home made lava lamps during Sci-Fri! It was such a fun experiment and very cool to watch. Try it at home! Start with 3/4 of a jar of oil. Add some water to the top and watch the water sink to the bottom.

 Add food coloring to the mixture. Then add some broken up pieces of Alka-Seltzer.

 And watch the magic happen! It really looks like a lava lamp as the Alka-Selzer mixes with the oil and water and food coloring.

 It only lasts until the Alka-Seltzer dissolves where we then added a different food coloring and more Alka-Seltzer. We also tried to do it in bigger chunks of the Alka-Seltzer to see how it differed. We liked it better with little bits because it created more "lava".

 Love the concentration!!

 They were SO into this!

Great Graphing!

We are learning about graphing in Math and the importance of getting information and showing it in a graph. We had a lot of fun graphing Lucky Charms cereal (made sure to tell the kids to not sneak a bite since they were used last year too!). They worked as a table group to pass around a bag with the Lucky Charm marshmellows in it. They picked out one marshmellow and told their table which they picked so they all could make an "X" on the graph above that marshmellow picture. After we were done, they had to get information from their graph such as, 1) How many marshmellows did their bag have total and, 2) Which marshmellow had more? We got our stats and wrote them on the board to compare!

Sci-Fri Volcanoes!

We had our first Sci-Fri experiment! Every Friday, we are going to do a fun hands-on Science experiment. We will call it Sci-Fri (for Science Friday :) We will talk about the experiment before we start and be able to hypothesize what might happen. Then we will dive in! We had so much fun with our first one! We had a bin full of Baking Soda and cups filled with vinegar and food coloring. With droppers, we dropped the vinegar/food coloring mixture and watched what happened - the vinegar meeting with the Baking soda made bubbles almost like it was erupting like a volcano! In the end we were allowed to touch the mixture to see what it felt like (most said it was sand-like and soft) and then we poured the rest of the vinegar mixture in to really watch it all bubble! Stay tuned for more Sci-Fri experiments!!

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