Rachel hypothesizes and tests the hardness of several rocks using her fingernail, a penny, and a nail at the experiment center.
William does too!
Nathan engages himself with an educational geology game at the computer center.
Madison and Ethan create volcanoes at the art center.
Here are a few others creating theirs.
For project work, the children learned about the behavior of volcanoes. They then drew a magma chamber, vents, and other parts of a volcano on our wall volcano.
Not shown: Making stone soup for snack (from the story read the previous day), weighing rocks (day two) as another math center activity, collecting iron from Cheerios as another experiment center, making volcano stories at the writing center, reading along at the listening center, computer educational games).