Wednesday, Discovery Day

 Ohhhh that's cold!

 With all of our recent disucssions about snow and ice, today we decided to have

a discussion about the animals that live in cold Arctic places.

We discussed how cold the water is and how it would feel if we had no protection.

So, we put our hands into ice cold water to see how it felt...

COLD!

We then talked about how animals in the Arctic protect themselves and keep warm. 

We learned about blubber and how different animals have sometimes a layer that is 12 inches

thick!  This helps the animals to stay warm in the very cold water.

So, our experiment was to make our own blubber layer and see if our hand would still be

really cold in the water or if it would be warm.

We took shortening and made a thick layer in a bag and then put another bag inside that

to protect our hand from getting all yucky.

We then put our hand into the two bags and put it back into the icy, cold water.

To our amazement, our hand didn't get cold!  It stayed perfectly warm!

It was a successful experiment!

 Jakob, putting his hand in the blubber-bag!

MARSHMALLOW & PRETZEL SNOWFLAKES

 On Monday, we read a non-fiction story about Winter and reviewed facts we've learned about snowflakes--their shapes, their uniqueness, their six sides/points, etc.  We then used pretzel sticks and marshmallows to create our own snowflakes.  These snowflakes didn't melt and they were yummy to eat!

Swimming Fun!

We had a really fun time in swimming today!

We practiced jumping into the pool with our kick-boards and we practiced kicking across 

from one end of the pool to the other.

After our kicking practice, we had free time in the pool

with the noodles!

It was great!

Wednesday... Computer Lab!

Mr. Mitchell found us a fun game on the computer where we could "show what you know" with our math-facts with simple adding!  Each level got a little harder than the one before!  When we were finished we got free choice on the computer.  Some of us played KidPix and some played Thinkin' Things!

Discovery Day!

We did some fun things for discovery day!  We planted our avocado pits... "pit-planting" into cups of water!  We used toothpicks to poke into the sides and then placed them in a cup.  When we asked the kids what they needed to grow a plant, their responses were:  water, sun, and love!

 

We also made Snow-Dough!  We got to mix the ingredients and we added glitter to make it sparkle! Make sure to ask me about it... I got to bring a bag home with me today!

GREEN GUACAMOLE

Today's cooking activity was making guacamole! Everyone participated  in making this yummy creation including chopping up tomatoes and red peppers; squeezing the limes for their juice; tearing up fresh cilantro; and mashing the avocado.  The best part was eating the guacamole for our afternoon snack.  YUMMY!