Adventure Preschool and ECFE: October 2012

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Happy Halloween from Adventure Preschool!

Monday, October 29, 2012

Water Beads!!

We had so much fun playing in the water beads today! We even got to do some magic! Check out the pictures!!

Water beads start out as tiny little balls. I soaked them in water all night long. I did one bowl of pink and one bowl of clear.

The next morning, this is what I found! They grew by about 20 times their starting size! Now for the magic!

I put a bowl of clear water beads in a glass dish and placed it on top of a picture. We all looked in the bowl and drew a picture of what we saw. Some of the descriptions were awesome! They saw "bubbles", "marbles", "mirrors"

This is how they looked!

We slowly poured water into the bowl of clear water beads and all of a sudden, the picture of a fish appeard! It was just like magic!

It was so cool we just HAD to demonstrate it for our 6th grade reading buddies! Little did they know they were learning about refraction! They thought they were just playing! :)

A short explanation: Because the clear water beads are clear, they refract or bend the light in the same way as the water. When it was just the beads in the bowl we were looking through light that was being bent in all different directions because of the ball shape of the beads. Once we poured in the water, we filled in all those empty areas and just like magic we could see the image.

Okay, it is much more scientific than that but it was sure a lot of fun!!

Sunday, October 28, 2012

ECFE Wednesday October 31

No ECFE on Wednesday October 31.
Make-up will be on Wednesday November 7!

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Fall Party Pumpkin for Saturday October 27!!

We worked very hard decorating our pumpkin for the contest that will be held at the fall party this Saturday!! I want my 'Mummy' was a joint effort between the M/W class and the T/Th class! As you will see from the pictures, we had a lot of fun!! You can vote for our class pumpkin this weekend!! We could win $100 for our classroom if we get the most votes!

1. Paint the Orange pumpkin White!

2. Glue LOTS of cheese cloth around the pumpkin!

3. Cut eyes and staple them onto the pumpkin!

Adventure Preschool

"I Want My 'Mummy"

Pumpkin!

Vote for us!!

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

PAC reminder!

Here is a reminder that we are having a PAC meeting at 6:00 today (october 16). I hope we see a lot of our parents there! Come late if you need to! There is child care!!!

Sunday, October 14, 2012

How To Draw a Person!

I totally wish that I could take credit for coming up with this cute jingle on how to draw a person but, alas, Pinterest is the best!!

After having my 3 year olds draw self portraits, I was looking for something that would help us remember all the important parts of us to include in a drawing! This is what I've found. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm very excited to give it a try!

I plan on introducing it by drawing a stick person. That is the easiest way to add clothes!

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Science Experiments! Growing Crystals - update 10/12

We started a science experiment this week! We are going to try and grow some crystals. I will post updated pictures as they grow!

Ingredients: Salt, Liquid Bluing, Water and Ammonia

Other: Q-tips, Food Coloring, Oil based Clay

After placing Q-tips in the clay, we put food coloring on the tips. We then mixed the ingredients together and poured it into the little cups.

After about 8 hours, the crystals started growing up the Q-tip.

After one day, the Crystals are moving up the Q-tip and forming on the container.

We can't wait to see what happens when the crystals reach the colorful Q-tips!

We used Magnifying glasses to help us see the crystals!

We drew pictures of what we saw in the crystal garden! Then everyone told Mrs. P. what they saw and she wrote it on their papers! Come see the awesome science pictures outside of our classroom!