Up Up and Away!

Hello Everyone!

I just wanted to quickly share a little video of our Mini Hot Air Balloon launch.  It is only a couple seconds long, but you have to watch and listen to the kids!  

We were busy all week learning about wind, how wind is made, and it's association to how hot air balloons work.  The explanation, directions, and examples are in my unit from last week, Wind, Clouds, and Air.  On Friday we got all our little firsties (about 100!) together in the science lab and were able to help them understand the concept first hand.  In the video you will see a toaster (heat source), cardboard around the toaster, and a thin plastic bag (balloon) over the cardboard.  Turn on the toaster and ...voila!!  Luckily, my sweet teamie grabbed her ipad and took the video!! Thanks, H!!

I love the excitement!!
Well, that's it for tonight!! Thanks for stopping by!! Hope you enjoyed the view!!
Monday, here we come!!
Joyfully!
Nancy

It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No! It's Air!

Hello Everyone!!
This coming week we will learn a little more about the weather around us, specifically air and wind.  We will learn what makes wind.  How can we tell it's windy when we can't see the wind? What makes air move? We will predict the weather and report like the weatherman!  I put together a mini unit to supplement what we have included in our curriculum. Here are a few pics showing what is included in the unit.

The unit includes poetry, science activities, language/vocabulary activities, public speaking,  and so much more!

For your free 24 page unit....

float on over to HERE!! :)

Hope this helps you! Let me know your thoughts!!

Joyfully!

Nancy

Pinwheel Power

Hello Everyone!
I love doing activities with my kiddos that take no printing, copying, laminating, cutting, tracing, organizing, bagging, passing out, gathering up, etc, etc,etc. This Sci Fri activity is one we did on the spur of the moment after we talked all week about blowing dandelion seeds and how the wind carries the seeds to all different places.  One of my little genius kiddos compared blowing a dandelion to blowing a pinwheel!  Well, of course we had to incorporate a craft connection and make pinwheels!!  We took a square piece of paper (just copy paper) and colored whatever design we saw in our mind's eye.  We flipped the paper over and drew diagonal lines coming in from each corner towards the center. We put a dot on every other corner.  Then simply gathered all the dotted corners and brought them to the center. We stuck a pish pin through all the layers of paper in the center of the square and then pushed it into the eraser end of a new pencil.  Voila! A beautiful pinwheel!  We, of course, had to practice blowing and running with our pinwheels!  So fun, easy, kid made, and applicable!!!   
Great job, kids!  I have a feeling you're going to make some more at home!!!  Get ready, parents!!! :)

Blow all your cares away!!!

Joyfully!

Nancy