Well, I have successfully picked another snowy, wintry day to play our World of Bounce trip and for the second time we had to postpone the trip. Wow, I just can't believe it. I still think it's a good trip to make in the winter since it's an indoor activity...it's just getting there...that's the problem! We made the day last Thursday as fun as we could for the children and we had a picnic lunch in the sensory room right before we loaded the buses early for the early dismissal. I'm hesitant to plan a third trip....but I will! I'll get with our bus drivers and plan another date in February.
We will continue learning about water, snow, and ice this week. Last week, we filled multiple containers with water and placed them in the freezer with the children. These containers are of various sizes and when they freeze we will hold ice races with them in the gym. This will be great fun as we can make predictions as to which sizes will go further and faster and why. We have gloves or mittens for all the children as they will need them to handle the ice. If there's enough snow on the ground this week, we'll bring some into the classroom to put in our sensory table and build snowmen with them and other things that the children want to build. We'll also paint with our frozen colored ice cubes that we made last week. We can see what makes the ice melts and what effect it has on paper.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
January 2011
We're off to a wonderful start in 2011! It was fabulous to see the children after their Christmas break and get caught up on what they were doing! They had many stories to tell us about their adventures!
This month we'll be studying water in all of its forms. We have our water table open with many options for the children to explore. Starting with turkey basters we'll experiment with air and water. We'll do experiments to learn what effect air has on water, then we can use our funnels and clear plastic tubing to see how gravity effects water in the tubes. We'll have this center open for the month of January and as the weeks progress we'll add other forms of water like ice and snow. We made colored water this week and poured it into ice cube trays. We put a popsicle stick in each section and we will paint with our ice cubes later next week and discover how the ice melts and under what conditions do they melt faster. Then we discussed where we might place our four containters to freeze them. The children decided on one in the freezer in Nurse Karla's office, one in the refrigerator, one in our little freezer in our refrigerator in the classroom and one outside. We checked on all four of our experiments and we learned several things. We learned that snow fell on our ice cubes tray that we placed out side so they have a layered look and we learned that our refrigerator is set too cold as 1/4 of the ice cube tray froze in the refrigerator...so that was a lesson I wasn't counting on but we talked about why that happened! That's the fun of experminenting....you just never know what you'll learn!
Our World of Bounce field trip has been re-scheduled for Thursday, January 20th. We are also resuming swimming at the Y and here's our schedule:
This month we'll be studying water in all of its forms. We have our water table open with many options for the children to explore. Starting with turkey basters we'll experiment with air and water. We'll do experiments to learn what effect air has on water, then we can use our funnels and clear plastic tubing to see how gravity effects water in the tubes. We'll have this center open for the month of January and as the weeks progress we'll add other forms of water like ice and snow. We made colored water this week and poured it into ice cube trays. We put a popsicle stick in each section and we will paint with our ice cubes later next week and discover how the ice melts and under what conditions do they melt faster. Then we discussed where we might place our four containters to freeze them. The children decided on one in the freezer in Nurse Karla's office, one in the refrigerator, one in our little freezer in our refrigerator in the classroom and one outside. We checked on all four of our experiments and we learned several things. We learned that snow fell on our ice cubes tray that we placed out side so they have a layered look and we learned that our refrigerator is set too cold as 1/4 of the ice cube tray froze in the refrigerator...so that was a lesson I wasn't counting on but we talked about why that happened! That's the fun of experminenting....you just never know what you'll learn!
Our World of Bounce field trip has been re-scheduled for Thursday, January 20th. We are also resuming swimming at the Y and here's our schedule:
The Red Room will be swimming on:
Wednesday, January 26
Wednesday, February 9
Wednesday, February 23
Wednesday, March 9
Wednesday, March 23
Wednesday, April 13
Wednesday, April 27
Friday, December 17, 2010
World of Bounce and Future Field Trips
I am working with our bus garage to re-schedule our World of Bounce field trip and I'll let you know when it will be in January as soon as we work out our schedules.
I also wanted to let you know that we're planning on going to the AHA Museum in Lancaster in February. I'll work on those dates as well and let you know as soon as possible. The cost of that field trip is $5.00 for children as well as adults. We do have funds available so please let us know if it's a hardship for you as we'd love to have all the children and as many parents attend as well.
I also wanted to let you know that we're planning on going to the AHA Museum in Lancaster in February. I'll work on those dates as well and let you know as soon as possible. The cost of that field trip is $5.00 for children as well as adults. We do have funds available so please let us know if it's a hardship for you as we'd love to have all the children and as many parents attend as well.
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