Young Fives are learning about living and nonliving things. We have studied how nonliving things are either found in nature or made by people, and we have learned that living things use their 5 senses to take in information about what's happening in the world around them. we have also learned that living things have basic needs including food, water, shelter, and air.
Kindergarten has started studying pushes and pulls and they will use this to help our imaginary story characters solve a problem of moving rocks out of the backyard so they can put up a swingset. Eventually, kindergarteners will work in a group to build a device that moves rocks (small blocks) across the room to help solve the problem. But before we do that, we are learning about how forces work with scavenger hunts and centers!
2nd grade has been learning about properties of matter. They have also been studying that there are 3 states of matter and the particles in each are arranged differently. We have used pompoms, Legos, fresh and frozen spinach leaves (to show a non reversible change), and lots of group and partner work to help us learn this new science!
Grade 2 Lego activity-- work with a partner to assemble something out of these Legos, then take it apart and rearrange the Legos into something new!
Kindergarten students working with a partner to build a painting tool that will paint thick lines, thin lines and dots!
Kindergarten students investigating forces at centers.
Friction blocks (above)
Pulling a car a little bit and then a lot and seeing when it goes farther (above)
Pushing and pulling stools with and without a heavy box
Do you have to use more force ( a bigger push) to get the ball to the farthest box?
Young Fives trying to figure out what the mystery object is while they are blindfolded so they rely on their sense of touch.
Young Fives making their prediction in their science journals of what they smell in the brown bag before we reveal it to them!
