Chanukah is coming!

In JK we’ve been very busy preparing for Chanukah!
We’ve been reading, crafting, singing, and practicing our lines and our dance for the Family Chanukah Celebration. We explored light with some of our translucent dreidels and other toys on our light table, and we had our third visit from our Grade 4 reading buddies! Keeping busy!

Chanukah is coming!

This week we began learning some of the symbols of Chanukah.
We used dreidels to paint dreidels, and hung them on our classroom door to get into the Chanukah spirit!
We have started practicing for the family Chanukah celebration (See flyer below) and are very excited!

Magic Fizzy Dinosaur Eggs

This morning we got to hatch a fossilized dinosaur egg. It was made out of baking soda, water, and food colouring. We helped the egg dissolve by pipettes and vinegar, and found a T-rex fossil inside! Then, we got to make our own dinosaur eggs and hatch them! We used our 5 senses to check out all of the ingredients – except taste because that would be yucky – and throughout the reaction.
(Listen with the sound on.)

We had so much fun! If you’d like to repeat the experience at home, here is the link to the experiment.
Comment below when you try it at home!

Dinosaurs

Today we listened to the story “Dinofours It’s Snowing!” by Steve Metzger. The dinofours are dinosaurs that are four years old, just like us! We were inspired by the footprints that they made in the freshly fallen snow in the story and we created our own dinosaur footprints using our classroom toys and some paint. Check out our awesome work!

If you’d like to listen to the story again at home, here it is! Enjoy!

RESULTS!

Here is what we observed and what we now know about what happens to snow when we bring it indoors:

when the snow melts, there is less water than there was snow. That’s because the air spaces between snowflakes dissapear when the snowflakes melt!
at the bottom we found sand, gravel, and dirt – ewww! This is why we should not eat snow! (Unless it is falling from the sky directly into our mouths)
red snow becomes red water
the snow outside didn’t melt and that’s because it’s still very cold outside.

We are now headed out to repeat the experiment! Enjoy your day!

Before After The dirt
Ewww!

SNOW!!!

We had a great morning playing outside in the snow! We had so much fun spraying the snow with red! One friend even brought a bucket of red snow into the class as an experiment to see what will happen! Stay tuned…

The Walking Rainbow!

Today we conducted the walking rainbow experiment. JK was so excited to watch the coloured water “walk” over the paper towel bridges and fill up the empty cups with new colours!

If you’d like to re-create it at home, here is the link. Comment below and send pics!

The beginning:

The middle:

The end:

Colour Mixing

JK has been busy learning about colours. We read “White Rabbit’s Color Book” by Alan Baker, and have become deeply interested in mixing colours to create new ones! We’ve so far tried watercolour paints, and have been using old markers dipped in water to see what colours are hidden inside the ink. We discovered that black markers can have some green pigment, and purple markers have some blue!