We have been studying water, oceans and change. The students mixed water with food color and poured it into ice cube trays. The trays were then left in the freezer, outside in the sun, inside the house and inside the refrigerator for one week. The next class time the students made observations about how the water changed. We also discussed how water can change into a gas through evaporation like the yellow water left outside or freeze into a solid like the blue water left in the freezer.
The students also put some sea creatures into tubs of water for their first class. Each one was outlined in its original shape/size. They were left in the tubs of water for one week. Then last class they were taken out. The students were amazed and excited to compare their huge size to the original size. Then each student made a hypothesis if leaving the sea creature out of water for a week would make the sea creature larger, smaller or have no change. Next class we will make our final observations and talk about reversible and irreversible change and how our 2 experiments help us understand this concept.
For art lab, students painted on an easel their first layer of the ocean. for writing, they uncovered and traced the letter "s" in a box of sand and made their own "s" on card stock using sand and glue. They all had a phonics lesson with "s" as well. For writing we worked on pre-writing skills of holding a pencil and fine motor skills by tracing a stencil and drawing horizontal parallel lines to fill in the shape with control and precision. We played a sharing game, sang the Amigo song, sang the slippery fish song and the abc phonic chant. We fished for sea creatures with numbers 1-6 after rolling a dice. We worked on number puzzles and counted during calendar time. For our motor skills development we worked on jumping and landing on two feet, balancing, catching a ball and other movements including an obstacle course. We are all having so much fun and learning along the way!
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