To start off our science week Mrs. Anne began the day asking the preschoolers the question of…. "What do you think will happen when I drop these two balls into the cups of water?" This activity was intended for our preschoolers to start recognizing that asking questions, making predictions, and testing out our questions are all connected to science. The preschoolers began guessing if the balls would either sink or float and to their surprise once Mrs. Anne dropped them both in…. …one ball sank while the other floated! Mrs. Anne began to explain the balls were made out of different material and how one was able to float above the water while the other was more dense and went straight to the bottom. The fun part was seeing our preschoolers reactions to their guesses! Teacher Lucia continued on the idea of science by introducing a new word "absorption" to the class. She began by explaining what it meant to absorb and how to tell if something could be absorbed. Once she finished explaining this, the preschoolers worked in groups to explore absorption using water, paper towels, and food coloring! They made predictions about what they thought would happen with the colored water. Transitioning nicely from teacher Lucia's color absorption activity, teacher Travis showed the preschoolers a fun group art about our primary colors! This was also a new word to them and he explained how just having three colors "Red, Yellow, and Blue" could make many more colors like purple, orange, and green. To get a better understanding of this concept he had a color wheel that they got to paint using their fingers! After painting the 3 primary colors, the preschoolers blended those with their fingers to create the secondary colors. After group art teacher AJ taught the preschoolers about a fun color song! "If your clothes have any Red touch your head!" "If your clothes have any Blue touch your shoe!" For the rest of the day we went into our free play and the high school teachers had many activities to share with our preschoolers! Continuing our science week Mrs.Anne started the morning off by having a poster board that had names of certain things like popcorn, packaging peanut, and sprinkles and asked our preschoolers to stand if they thought these items would be absorbed by the water and disappear or stay seated if they thought they would stay the same. One of the neat things about this activity is Mrs.Anne had small jars of water and was able to show the preschoolers right at that moment if the items were dissolving or staying the same, and throughout the day they could visually check the jars to see how the items were reacting in the water! As for the group art activity Mrs.Anne showed the class how to create bubble art! All the kids had lots of fun with this one. They got to blow bubbles that were meant to overflow in art cups and once this occurred the kids got to place their sheet of paper on top of the bubbles making a imprint of bubble paint! Most important part?? Practicing how to BLOW through the straw and NOT suck up the paint mix! During free play we have our art, language, science, creative, sensory tables open as well as other areas for the preschoolers to freely spend some time exploring the classroom like our block area and library space. |
Our rainy day activity this week is a science experiment that involves baking soda and vinegar! You'll need: -red, yellow, and blue food coloring - containers for the colors - small measuring cup for vinegar - baking soda - a measuring spoon 1) Start by putting some baking soda in the containers then add the red food coloring into one container and the yellow in the other. Cover with a bit more baking soda so preschooler can guess which cup has yellow or red food coloring. 2) Pop a few drops of blue food coloring into the measuring cup with vinegar. 3) Ask your preschooler which container they think has yellow food coloring in it and which has the red and that all they need is the blue vinegar to figure it out. (If it turns purple, that container had red food coloring and if it turns green that container had yellow food coloring.) 4) Begin having your preschooler pour the blue and watch as the baking soda and vinegar begin to react changing colors! 5) Now you and your preschooler can see who was right and explain how red and blue create purple while yellow and blue make green! Also Try: Putting vinegar and food coloring mix into a jar (filled halfway). Add some dish soap to the vinegar mix and stir. Then add a heaping teaspoon of baking soda and stir. This will make a "frothier" reaction! It's really cool - but very messy. Be sure to place a tray underneath! Keep stirring and adding more baking soda and vinegar to keep the reaction going! |
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AuthorAlia Laack is a high school Family and Consumer Sciences teacher who runs the Early Childhood Education program at Century High School, including the Little Jags Preschool. |
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