We finally made it to the 100th day of school! 80 more to go before first grade!!
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Magnetic Fields
We're back to exploring properties of solids (after a brief visit with liquids for the bubble workshop)! This week, we've discovered magnets and explored how they work.
Why do we study magnets?
To begin, we read the book What Makes a Magnet? (It's a great book with lots of ideas on how you and your student can make magnets at home!) The book helped us to understand why magnets are such a special type of solid.
Also, the students learned that each magnet has two poles - a north and south pole. I asked the students to try and observe their magnets' poles. Some were successful in finding that some magnets didn't want to come together easily and we discussed that it was because it was the same pole (north to north or south to south) they were trying to connect. Once the students turned over the magnet, they stuck together easily. The students who found this happening during our exploration were really fascinated by it!
Then, it was off to exploring magnets on our own.
Here are a few pictures of the students in action!
Monday, February 2, 2015
Bubbles, bubbles and more bubbles!
Kindergarten scientists at work. |
Bubble Workshop 2015 by Slidely Slideshow
You can visit The Discovery Museums' website to explore more science fun at home with your student.
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