What is in snow?

Despite my sharing my thoughts on eating snow, I have seen the kids face first eating it while they pretend to be puppies outside. I wanted to show them exactly what was in snow, so we did a mini experiment. We collected snow from 3 places.

We waited for the snow to melt, and to our surprise, we found many yucky things in all three samples including rocks, scum, unknown floating particles and even hair! Yuck! 

We talked about drinking from outdoor water sources and how important it is to only drink or eat known foods from our parents so that we can be safe. 

Rescue the Ice Cube!

How can you get an ice cube out of a glass of water using only string and salt? The PreK/K were stumped. We learned that salt melts ice-- the kids made some great connections to salt trucks and the blue crystals that you sometimes see on stairs. By resting the string on the ice cube and pouring salt on it, the ice cube melts a little and re-freezes over the string! After a few tries, we were able to rescue the ice cube!

Painting with Ice

We continued our exploration of senses in winter with tough. The kindergarteners said that snow feels smooth, fluffy and cold! We used our winter colours (in a tempera powder paint) and cold ice to paint after.

Sing along to those crazy phonic songs with this video!

As requested by a few parents, wondering what the heck their children have been singing about, here is the link to our jolly phonics songs :) 

http://youtu.be/X2YAqhzaheE

Wow! Stunning Winter Colours in the Hall

I cannot get enough of the kids marble paintings and have already received so many compliments about them to pass on to your children! They sure are beautiful :)

Welcome Back!

Hello everyone! I am back and due to an awesome new app on my phone, posting will be a lot easier for me and therefore much more frequent (fingers crossed)! 

After all of the excitement of the Christmas break, it was nice to get back into the routine and hear all about the kids' amazing winter experiences. 

With the frigid weather making a stunning sparkling winter scene to observe through our windows, we started talking about everything we see in winter. Using paint, we pulled colours out of a winter scene. The kids expanded then vocabulary and learned about tints and shades of colour. After pulling many colours out, we voted on our favourites and created designes with marbles! It was lots of fun! 

Rainbow Craft

The PreK/K class finished their colour unit by making rainbows of their own. They had the choice o using paper strips, string or fruit loops to fill in their rainbow. This was a great fine motor activity as well as a fun craft!