What Happens to Wood When it Gets Wet?

Kindergarten has been discovering what happens to wood when it gets wet. They have made some great observations and predictions!

I can see the lines on the wood.

Look!  The wood sticks together when it's wet!

One wood gets darker and the other gets lighter.

The wood sticks to the table too!

The water sinks into this wood.

I'm trying to get more of the wood to stick together.

Three can stick together!

We discovered that all five wood samples floated.  We made
predictions about on whether the wood will still be floating
by the next science class!  Most students think some will sink
and some will float!

Bring in the Snow!

What do we do when there's a lot of snow outside?  Bring it inside of course!! Pre-K measured, packed, mixed and molded snow from the blizzard this week!

I'm making water!

First Grade Explores Solids!

We read that everything that takes up space is made up of matter: a solid, liquid or gas.  We are now exploring, comparing and describing solids.  

We wondered what we were made of....then discovered we are all three states of matter!  Animals too!

How do different solids feel?

What do solids look like?

This feels rough and smooth!

The wire is so bendy!

Look!  The screw fits in the tube!

Building with solids.

Pre-K Looks at Animal Tracks!

We have been exploring what animals and people do during the winter!  We have started to gather information during science class.

We wondered, did people wear a hat to school?

Which animals like the snow?
Which animals don't like the snow?

We made animal tracks in the snow play dough!

The snake tracks are cool!

So many animals in the snow leaving tracks!

Look!  What's under the stick?

It's our millipede that woke up from hibernating! 

Animal memory game!

 We had some more questions that we wondered about!

It's tricky to try to match the animal track to the animal!