Energy, Force, & Motion,

This week we have been learning about energy, force, motion and states of matter. The kiddos have had a great time exploring and learning.  We have learned that a force is a push or pull to make something move. There are many kinds of force.
 
                      Using magnetic force- Magnet Racing

                                          Comparing force with magnets 

                         
       Experimenting using a pushing force -Lid skid game

                         
   Learning about air as matter, energy, and a pushing force

                          
   We learned that static is energy that has a pulling force

                        
                        
                                 Mr. Ables brought us donuts!

                        

Happy New Year!

We had a great first few days back after the Christmas break. I am so glad to be back! I have missed the children. They have all been so sweet telling me how they missed me while I was on leave. I was able to visit with them during their Christmas party so I am posting the pictures I took that day. We have discussed New Year celebrations and resolutions. We all made a resolution and used our sounds to write them. They made baby new year and glued confetti on the paper to celebrate the resolutions.

 
 

October 2012

We have had a great time learning lots of things during the month of October.  We started out October with our pumpkin patch trip. We had a super trip and the weather was perfect! We have been learning about all kinds of things related to the fall season. We learned about leaves and different kinds of animals. Ask your children to tell you some facts about bats or spiders and I am sure you will amazed! Here are a few pictures of the things we have been doing in October.


We arrived at the pumpkin patch!

Eating Lunch

 

Playing around waiting for the hay wagon!

 

Riding the "Cow Train"

 

We learned that bats find their families by smell. We used scented cotton balls to find the members of our bat families!

                                                    We found who matched our smell!

 

We learned why spiders don't get stuck in their own webs. They have oil on their feet! We used tape and baby oil to pretend to be spiders and insects climbing on the web. So cool!

 

Mrs. Ables' caught a real garden spider and but it in the butterfly net for everyone to see. It had already made an egg sack. We cut it open and used the document camera to take a close look! We saw the spider's eggs!

 

Our spider for the week.

This is how it looked when we cut the egg sack open. So small that you could not really see anything but a small yellow ball wrapped in layers of spider silk.

                                   We used the document camera to zoom in on the eggs!