The 100th Day of School! :)

Happy 100 days of school, the Kindergarten class is officially 100 days smarter! :) We read some 100 day books, counted by 2's, 5's and 10's to 100 and enjoyed a yummy snack! Thank you to everyone for participating and helping us make this successful! :)

Goodbye Mrs. Stoner, We Will Miss You!

After a messy Sci-Fri experiment we had a going away party for Mrs. Stoner. Robin brought us in a yummy treat to enjoy on our Friday afternoon.

 

All of the students looking at the yummy treat! :)

Enjoying our treat! :)

Class picture on Mrs. Stoner's last day!

 

Thank you for everything Mrs. Stoner, we will miss you!

What was left of our yummy treat! :)

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!