WKA- October 16th

Several teacher's and I attended the Wisconsin Kindergarten Association's  fall meeting October 16th. The three of us that were going together, left about 5 am!!! I got up at about 4.

Here is the amazing Km Jordano and myself at the conference.  Check out her fabulous site:kinderbykim for some amazing ideas.  I only bought one book because I didn't bring my checkbook! Used my cash wisely though!!!

Day and Night

Day and Night is our topic this week.

 In Kindergarten and First grade we brain stormed things that we saw during the daytime.

For 2-5 we brainstormed things that we saw at day/both/night

Here is the science log from a 5th grader:

Elementastics

Week number two with the fun ladies from Elementastics.

We used black or brown markers and coffee filters.  We p-u-l-l-e-d apart the marker dots to see the colors in the markers. 

We made SLIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go here for the  Slime recipe. We added water to the glue bottle and shook it. We poured it in a cup we stirred  continuously then we added some Borax. We used the new neon food coloring.  I am loving the purple!!!

Friend Web

I was recently in a second grade room and we made this Friend Web:

In the red we talked about things we can do with friends. In the blue, we talked about how we should act with friends.

October- No Bones about it!

The first week of October we talked about Skeletons.

Here are the skeletons that the Kindergartners and First Graders created.

 We did the Macarana Bones by Dr. Jean and did the dance that went with it. I will be sharing the video at the science fair. We charted the words.

 We cut apart and labeled parts of the skeletons. Here are the the skeletons for the 2-5th grades.

 Our skeletons are so big, we must fold them up!

We hung a large skeleton which is labeled for the children to use as a guide.

We learned some very cool songs.   We had most of the words covered, I could just see the chorus, so we just sang that over and over! The rest of the words were covered with the skeleton with labels. It was so cute how they just sang that part with me over and over!

Elementastics

A local college comes to our school to share science experiments with all of the children. This Wednesday, we broke down into a little different groups:  3-5, 1-2, and then the Kindergartners. The oldest children did cool experiments with light.

The children picked a few shapes, then they used a very cool kind of paper. They even put them in frames!

1-2 children did several stations using their senses. One station had to do with touch.  They used three bins of water: 2 warm bins and one cool.

The other station was with sight.  We looked at the circle and guessed what it was going to look like.

The final station is with jelly beans!!!  We closed our eyes and plugged our noses and tried to guess the flavor of the jelly bean.  Then we just closed our eyes and guessed.  This was the yummiest science experiment yet!!!




The Kindergartners got to wear lab coats.  I took each of their pictures in the lab coats for our book.

Then on to our experiment.

We did a cool experiment using: water, oil, and vinegar. We used test tubes!

Then the COOLEST experiment of all!!!!

Then we did a very neat experiment. One that anyone can do at home.  All you need, is a plate, milk, food coloring, a q-tip, and some dish washing soap.

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