Today we went on a short little hike to experience fall with 4 of our senses- sight, sound, touch and smell… no tasting today 🙂 They were a wild bunch of animals on the hike but came up with very
Science/Math: Classification
This week, students were given a bag of random things that included a potato, balloons, a highlighter, a canning jar ring, a pipette, some beans, a pipe cleaner, a sugar packet… just lots of random things! Each groups bag was
Science/Math: Rosie Revere Engineer
This week we capped off our three week Questioneers series with Rosie Revere Engineer (previous weeks were based on Ada Twist Scientist and Iggy Peck Architect) We then used recyclables to do our own building/inventing – a bridge with train
Science/Math: Weaving Wonders
This week we learned about spiders. We started with the book Weaving Wonders: Spiders in Your Backyard by Nancy Loewen. We explored some ways that spiders typically make webs with a shape matching game. Then each kiddo experienced life as a spider
Buttermilk
For Science, the electrons made some delicious butter. They experimented with adding salt or sugar and even made some whipped cream. We briefly talked about how Heavy whipping cream is made and how the agitation starts to separate the fat
Symmetry
We read the book “Seeing Symmetry” to complement our work from the previous week. Since the book mentioned snow flakes, we did a science experiment with baking soda and hair conditioner to make snow. The Electrons were challenged to research
Play- dough
The Electrons worked hard in the kitchen to make play dough for the youngest co-op kids to use during art class. Before heading to the kitchen, we made some educated guesses about the ingredients in play dough. We had some
Balloons
Balloons, balloons, balloons…rocket balloons this week. Larger balloons travelled further and a lego weight helped keep them on track. https://www.sciencefriday.com/educational-resources/balloon-rockets/ 🙂
Symmetry
This week, we discussed lines of symmetry and then created our own symmetrical drawings. After we got our drawing muscles warmed up, we started self-portraits created on drawing paper using a photo of half of our face and reflecting that
McDonaldization
We were asked to read an article about the McDonaldization of our culture. As a class, we took a walk to Sugar Beet food co-op, keeping in mind the article we read. When we returned we talked about what we