Let us Melt The Snow!

Do you want to build a snowman?

We've certainly had our fair share of snow this winter! To make the most of it and learn a little something about the concepts of hot and cold, we did a fun experiment together today! First we read the classic book "The Snowman Storybook" and then got busy working on our snowmen. We built a few different snowmen all with the same goal in mind. We wanted to melt each one! We talked about how different seasons bring cold and hot weather and what would happen if we some how put a snowman outside in July. We made predictions on what would happen if we squirted hot water on our mini snowmen. We even added some food coloring to really watch how the warm water spread throughout the snowman! 

This was a great activity for making predictions, during inferences, building fine motor control and hand strength, body parts, and following directions.  

Dr. Patricia Bath

We continued our unit on Black History today and were excited to learn about Dr. Patricia Bath! Dr. Bath was the first African American to receive a patent for a medical invention. She changed the world of ophthalmology when she invented the Laserphaco Probe which is used to treat cataracts. In her honor we talked about what a trip to the eye doctor may be like. We even had a little fun with the machine used to check and correct eye sight.

Later we made eye charts from mixing two colors together. A great activity for our fine motor development, building color mixing understanding, and following directions.

Matryoshkas Dolls

To continue our Olympic theme and Russia today, we made Nesting Dolls, or Matryoshkas Dolls! We talked about concepts such as large, medium, and small, as well as "inside", "outside". We also practiced subtracting and adding by one.

We later made our own adorable Matryoshkas Dolls by mixing paint colors to make the background of our dolls.

To demonstrate the concepts, we worked with Mrs. Burns' own Nesting Doll of a soccer player :)