We had watched the Amazon series of Swiss Family Robinson. And in this show they showed how they collected salt from the same and ocean water. So at our recent trip to the beach, A decided it was a great time to try!
Keep reading to see her plan and how it turned out!
We are taking about mass and measurements. So today we participated in the Mini Measurement Olympics.
We modified the Mini Metric Olympics from here. We talked about centimeters, meters, inches, feet, milliliters, cups, grams, and pounds. For our events today we used inches and feet for our distance. (As this is what our measuring tape was in). We used grams for the weight with our kitchen scale, and we looked at both milliliters and cups for our volume.
Keep reading to see how they did in the different events.
We have spent the last couple weeks doing a brief overview of the 6 land biomes. At the end A & S got to each choose 1 biome to learn a bit more about and create a diorama. Keep reading to see what they chose & learned!
The other day we went over to the farm and came across a lot of nice pinecones. A asked to bring them home. So we did a science experiment with some of them.
Question:
What happens to pinecones when placed in water?
Keep reading to find out!
This week we connected our history and our science lessons. We have started to learn about the Neolithic Period and how they were some of the first people to settle down and build communities. They built some of the villages near the water because of how important water was (and still is) for them. We watched a couple videos that won’t along with our reading. This was one of our kids favorites “Travel back in time”
So we talked about the importance of water and keeping it clean. We then used\modified More Time 2 Teach’s activity on Pollution.
Keep reading to see how this worked.
Today for science we talked about erosion and Jadav Paygen. We started the lesson by watching the documentary Forest Man. Throughout the documentary we passed and talked about what was going on.
After that we did the STEM 1 Activity: Erosion in the Blooms and Roots curriculum. Continue reading to see our set up and what was learned.
Today we talked and experienced States of Matter.
We started the day off without any explanation or discussion by making Strawberries and Cream Popsicles from the book Ice Pops!: 50 delicious fresh and fabulous icy treats. It was interesting hearing what they noticed without leading from me. (Ex. How the sugar dissolved, how the blender made bubbles, the smells they noticed.)
Read on to see how we incorporated this with States of Matter!
Our adventure of tracking the eggs to frogs is finally completed. We have watched and recorded their journey from eggs, through all the stages of tadpoles, to becoming frogs. But don’t worry, that does not mean we are done checking on the frogs.
Not too far from us is the Walker Nature Center. One of the gems there is a little pond. On March 18th we saw frog eggs in the water. So we decided to keep track of their progress. Here is their journey.
Today on our hike we brought a basket and let the kids collect things they found interesting that a) would fit in the basket and b) they could carry.
Then after we got back and had a short break to cool off (sure is hot & humid here) we meet up with other friends, collected a few more items & then I challenged the kids to find 6 different ways to group or classify the items they collected.
They quickly figured out 3 way, then with some discussion and some leading questions from me found another 3.
After listening to the podcast How To Turn Failures Into Robots from Big Life Kids Podcast S was inspired to create a boat out of a plastic bottle.
So we did a bit of brainstorming & then found this video on YouTube. So S wrote down the materials needed so we would be ready for the morning. Rice, 2 pencil, 2 foam, bottle.
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