Music Monday

While we sing and dance many days of the school week, on Mondays we especially like to focus on music!  Over the past few weeks, we have been talking about different sounds and how music is made.  We have experimented with different instruments, as drums, triangles, bells and xylophones.  Today we experimented with making music using different common objects from around the classroom.  We used problem-solving skills as we figured out ways to produce sounds. 

Do you recognize some common materials that we are using to make sound?

Here is our musical band!

This book inspired us to create music using objects from around the room!

BLACK AND ORANGE DAY!

We had a very very busy black and orange day on October 31st.  Thanks so much to the parents and grandparents that helped out.  We enjoyed making ghosts, decorating cupcakes, playing number bingo, acting out the 5 Little Pumpkins and listening to a spooky story.

Hope everyone had a very happy and safe Halloween!

Apple Explosion

Super Science Wednesday

This Wednesday we enjoyed an exciting experiment using vinegar, baking soda, food coloring and apples!

We cut out the center of an apple to make a little bowl.

Next we mixed vinegar with food coloring in a measuring cup.

Then we poured the colored vinegar into the apple.

Finally, we added a few spoonfuls of vinegar.  

Then we made predictions about what we thought would happen!

Take a look at what happened!

Our materials

Getting ready to see what will happen...

Take a look at the excited faces when the children saw the vinegar react with the baking soda.  It made a fuzzy bubbling mixture that overflowed out of the apple - like a volcano!  We talked about the meaning of the word "reaction".  Many of the children were so excited they volunteered to draw pictures and write words about this experiment in our class super science journal!

Trip to the Firehall

We enjoyed a fantastic trip to the firehall on Tuesday October 14th!  We were very proud of how well our students listened and answered questions about fire safety!

Take a look at some photos of our outing!

Firefighter Brian showed us all the equipment a firefighter  wears!

Learning lots of fire safety rules from the firefighters.  Can you name some fire safety rules we discussed at the firehall?

Getting to spend time with Sparky!

Sitting in the fire truck!

Practicing stop, drop and roll!

A great trip to the firehall!  Thanks to all the parents who joined us on this outing!  A special thanks to Mr. Malott for helping to organize this trip!