In this picture, we are building a class anemometer. Anemometers measure wind speed. Since there was no wind on Wednesday, we had to cheat and use a fan!
Each child made a sun dial wristwatch on Tuesday. They learned how to tell time using shadows.
The drama center is a popular place to be. They pretend to be meterologists for CBS (Canyon Brook School) News. :)
For our science center on Wednesday, everyone made their own wind direction recorder. This instrument can help them know if the wind is blowing north, east, south, or west.
On "Fall Day" some of the children enjoyed making crayon rubbings of leaves and classifying them.
In this picture, we are learning how to use a sundial. We were all impressed by its accuracy!
On "Summer Day" we spent some time outside tracing and measuring our shadows. We watched how our shadows changed throughout the day.
For a science experiment on heat, we put M&M's on a black piece of paper and a white piece of paper. We watched to see which melted more quickly. Most of us found that the M&M on black paper melted more quickly because the black paper absorbed more heat than the white paper.
Another fun art center this week was making sun catchers. We cut shapes out of card stock and used a push pin to make small holes in the paper.
On "Spring Day" we made posters explaining the water cycle. Everyone did a wonderful job of being creative with their posters. Some of the posters were even 3-D!
On Monday we experimented with making clouds in a glass jar. See the "Cloud Making" weather link if you would like to try this at home!
