Friday, March 22, 2013

Bubble Fun

Our Toddler 2 is having so much fun chasing and popping bubbles today!  This is a great way to get our muscles moving!





Bat Art

Today we learned all about Bats in our Pre-K 2 classroom.  Our favorite thing about bats is how they hang upside down.  So, we did upside art today to be just like them!!  It was so much fun!!






Monday, March 18, 2013

Making Bird Feeders

Our Toddlers had so much fun making Bird Feeders today!!



shake.. shake.. shake



Preschool 1 had even more fun!!!

"Let me help!"









Thursday, March 14, 2013

Special Shamrock Craft

Our classrooms had so much fun doing our Shamrock Craft!  All we did was cut a bell pepper in half and use it as a stamper to create 3 and 4 leaf clovers!  This was a great kick off to our St. Patrick's Day celebration at the end of this week!!











Thursday, March 7, 2013

Airplane Races

After a day of learning about Aviation we finally got to fly our paper airplanes today!! Each class had paper airplane races, and we had so much fun finding out who's planes would go the furthest!!










Making Paper Airplanes

Our curriculum theme this month is "Wings and Things that Fly".  Today we talked about Aviation and how it is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft.  We also got to start designing our own Paper Airplanes to get ready for our Airplane Races tomorrow!





Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Flying Mentos Experiment

Today we did the Flying Mentos Experiment!!  What do you need for the Flying Mentos Experiment you ask??
1. Mentos
2. A 2 Liter Diet Drink
3. A Tube to drop the Mentos down
How Does It Work??
Each Mentos chewy mint has thousands of tiny pits all over the surface.  These tiny pits are called nucleation sites-perfect places for carbon dioxide bubbles in the soda to form.  As soon as the Mentos hit the soda, bubbles form all over the surface of the chewy mints and quickly rise to the surface of the liquid.  Couple this with the fact that Mentos are heavy and sink to the bottom of the bottle and you've got a double whammy.  When all this gas is released, it literally pushes all of the liquid up and out of the bottle in an incredible soda blast!