🎲Prime Climb 🔢 So today is technically an “off” day of home school for us but the games we are playing have everything to do with learning and I count it as school (but my kids don’t 😂). How to play Prime Climb– this is one of our favorite games to play. It is straightforward […]
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How can you make a “walking rainbow”? And why does it “walk”? Let’s answer these questions by experimenting! Let’s gather our supplies! Supplies: Food coloring-red, yellow, blue6 Paper towels pieces cut to fit in each sectionWater3 Popsicle sticks for stirringa tray with 6 sections (pictured) Directions: 1️⃣ Squeeze one drop of food coloring in every
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How do ice orbs form? Let’s find out with this icy experiment! First we had to make some ice. So we just used regular tap water and filled these neat looking ice cubes. We let it freeze for a few hours and then our ice cubes were ready to be experimented with. Supplies: Ice Sea
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We took our geometric shapes outside to draw their shadows. It was really cool to build the shapes on top of each other and see the colors mix to make different colors reflected on the paper. We also filled a few of the shapes with water 💦 to see what would happen. This is a great
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Today’s experiment was so exciting! It involves only two ingredients- mentos and diet soda! We also purchased a geyser tube that we saw on @stevespanglerscience which is so awesome in helping to store and release the mentos at a specific time for an epic explosion! This is a really quick experiment but so fun! We
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In this tray, I attempted to recreate a swamp habitat so we can review the Life Cycle of a Frog. We have ponds, reeds, lily pads and water lillies. We also read Dr. Seuss’ “Would you rather be a tadpole” which is a fun book to learn about a few other animals and species that
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This week we reviewed life cycles for butterflies and frogs. We read Dr. Seuss’ My-Oh-My A Butterfly! as well as Pete The Cat And The Cool Caterpillar . We then used this free printable from Safari Ltd.’s website- Life Cycle Of A Butterfly for a cut and paste activity for my 5 year old. I
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This was a pretty cool science experiment that we had to try- Inverting a bottle full of water with only a piece of tissue “holding” the water inside…and then putting toothpicks inside without water falling out! My boys were completely amazed and loved testing it out. We had some fails, but it was a great
I love doing this experiment as it’s like magic! How do the images disappear? Let’s grab our supplies and find out! Supplies: Glass filled with water Paper to draw on Markers Ziploc bag Directions: 1️⃣ Fill a glass with water. Set aside. 2️⃣ On a piece of paper, draw a rainbow. We used these dual
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Today we are learning a little bit about birds. We built a bird feeder, read a Dr. Seuss about birds, and played Bird Bingo. Time to time, we will have northern cardinals, blue jays, and even red-tail hawks perching on our fence, so we are hoping our bird feeder will attract a few other species
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