Our first day of Rock Camp was a success! We started off the day with a jewelry making center, a rock research center, and a drama jewelry store. They also folded 3-D crystal shapes at the math center and decorated their new science journals.
We read the book "Stone Soup" at story time. It is about a village that comes together by making a big pot of soup. We decided to cook together too, but we made homemade ice cream instead. We talked about how the rock salt helps lower the freezing point so the milk can freeze into ice cream.
We learned a little about minerals today. Minerals are solid materials that come from nature and rocks are made of minerals. We learned some fun ways to identify minerals. One way is to rub a mineral on the ground to create a "streak." The color of the streak can help you know what kind of mineral it is.
