Three Kids Bring Gift to Hens

First graders grew a gift of green.

Hoping for a happy and healthy 2022 for all.

 

'Ear Anything?

 Third graders tried to invent pinnae that would help them hear better.  

Pond Life in Fourth Grade Classrooms

 Videos taken by Josh of mysterious creature...

Our source thinks it is a waterlily aphid.  

 Apexel 100x microscope for Smartphone 

Birchbark Structure

Nancye Good led fourth graders through the process of constructing a birchbark structure in the "woods" next to the Mud Kitchen.  When they left, kindergarteners used the structure as a new spot for their  dramatic play.

Thanks to Nancye and the hardworking fourth graders.  And thanks to Lindsay and Kaelyn who documented the construction process. And, of course, to Valerie for the photo of the K students.

Kindergarteners are in the house...

Catapulting Cotton Balls by Second Graders

Levers are cool.  Second graders enjoy exploring a variety of tools made up of levers. But a catapult.  That is something else again...

Pre-K Mud KItchen Explorers

 

And Then Bring Stuff Indoors to Continue Their Work

K Kids Test: Washable or Not

Students Draw on Fabric with Washable and Non-Washable Markers...

Teaching kids to be skeptical is all part of our job as science teachers.

Turns out the washable markers are really washable.

BEFORE

AFTER

There is a class action suit against a famous brand Washable Markers...but our tests show that their Ultra Clean brand are Washable.