Shadow Puppets
Plants
Week of March 9-13: Start preparing for our next unit about plants by completing this activity which is finding how many different types of plants that you have near your home.
Week of March 2-6: Put your knowledge of light and shadows to work by making a sundial and practice telling time!
Week of Feb 23-27: Watch a shadow puppet show in preparation for our shadow puppet shows in March!
Week of Feb 16-20: Learn about using lights to communicate by watching the video on this page. The activity that goes with it can be found in the right hand side bar next to the video.
Week of Feb 9-13: Can you make a mirror and light maze? Try this activity!
Week of Feb 2-6: Learn about mirrors, light, and reflections with this activity!
Week of Jan 26-30: Learn about transparent, translucent and opaque with this activity!
Week of Jan 19-23: Learn about shadows by making a shadow frame!
Week of Jan 12-16: Explore how sound travels to a sound receiver with this activity!
Week of Jan 5-9: Explore changing pitch with these musical straws.
Enjoy your break!
Week of Dec 15-19: Watch sound waves with this activity!
Week of Dec 8-12: Explore sound vibration by making a homemade guitar!
Week of Nov 24-25: Enjoy your Thanksgiving break!
Week of Nov 17-21: Finish up our exploration with air and weather with one of these activities!
Week of Nov 10-14: Explore the wind with these activities!
Week of Nov 3-7: Track wind speed by building an anemometer!
Week of Oct 27-31: Observe the patterns of the moon!
Week of Oct 20-24: Make a rain cloud in a jar!
Week of Oct 13-17: Make a homemade thermometer to track temperatures.
Week of Oct 6-10: Learn more about the weather by watching Weather Hunters on PBS kids.
Week of Sept 29-Oct 3: Explore air and water with this activity similar to our lesson in class.
Week of Sept 22-26: Build a paper helicopter and discuss how the air helps it to fly.
Week of Sept 15-19: Read together this picture book about air!
Week of Sept 8-12: Learn about air with this activity!