ART CLASS 3-7-11

Today's Art Class involved some new activities as well as some old favorites.  New activities included stamps and drawing on the dry erase board.

 

WATER!

Our Discovery lesson this week involved WATER!!  First, we brainstormed the places we find water and ways we use water.  Then, we put some celery in water and added food coloring to the water.  We will watch the celery closely and carefully over the new few days to see what happens.  If the celery turns colors, we know the water has traveled through the celery.  Stay tuned!

In the photo below, you can see we split the stalk of celery, putting one part in the blue water and one part in the red water.  We can't wait to see what color the top part/leaves of the celery will be once the water travels through the celery.  Will it be red?  blue?  another color?

SLEEPY HEADS!

Do you think we wore them out?!

SMARTBOARD ACTIVITY

When part of the class goes to the computer lab, the other part of the class stays in the classroom for activities.  This week, we reviewed beginning sounds using the Smart Board.  Children would identify the beginning sound/letter of a picture; would find the letter on one of the yellow cars; and would then drag the car beside the picture.

Computer Day!

We got to pick different stories on-line and the computer read them to us!

The program was called, Capstone Interactive Library!

We really enjoyed being able to pick our own book!

CHEMICAL GARDENS

Last week Mrs. Henry did a "discovery experiment" called, "Crystal Gardens".  Mrs. Henry assisted each student with creating his/her own crystal garden using sponges, water, salt, ammonia, food coloring, and bluing.  Over the past week, we have checked to observe the changes to our crystal gardens.  Your child will bring home his/her crystal garden to share with you.  The children know not to eat or play with their chemical gardens, just observe them.

Cooking!

Rice Pudding!

We mixed white rice, milk, cream, sugar, and cinnamon

together and then baked our pudding

for 2 hours!

 Here is our pudding when it came out of the oven!

It smelled so sweet and yummy and the cinnamon was a perfect touch!

 Some of us really liked the rice pudding and some of us didn't think it was as good

as it smelled!

But, we all had fun making it!