Last week’s cold weather helped bring new ways to play and enjoy the outdoors. In Science this term, the focus is on materials: sorting, describing, transforming, and using our senses to explore them. We were lucky enough to have all three phases of water to discover outside: fog, ice, and rain!
Observations: Ice is brittle: sometimes it breaks off in fun shapes like dinosaurs! Ice floats: if you have patience you can fish in an icy puddle! Slush is soft: you can sculpt it into a snow volcano!
The week ahead: January 17-21
Inspired by the tugs, barges, speedboats, and the patrol boat that we watched on the river, this week we’ll explore how boats are useful, and what shapes, sizes and materials are most buoyant.
- Monday – at the park.
- Tuesday – at the park. Boat-making day! Please send along a recyclable container of your child’s choice for a boat and string so we can experiment with buoyancy in the puddles.
- Wednesday – at FLE. Home reading books sent home (let’s try again!)
- Thursday – at FLE. Library book exchange.
- Friday – at FLE.