We had a GREAT science fair last week! It was so nice to see all the kids excited, inviting parents and others to see their projects, and for the Bumblebee parents to get together too! One bumblebee student took his project to the South Sound Regional Science Fair at PLU and won second place for his age division! The best part of the science fair this year was really listening to the students share their project. For the early grades, it's not that important to be an elaborate, unique project. I want to see something that they could confidently tell me what they wanted to find out (question), what they thought might happen (hypothesis) and explain what did happen (data and conclusion). This language and process of learning is used all the time in the real world! We are giving them the skills at 5 and 6 years old to be amazing problem solvers, and to realize that learning doesn't stop because you left the classroom, or even graduated school!
In addition, we have been having fun with literature! We have been reading Pete the Cat, Elephant and Piggie and Elmer. We created magic sunglasses to make our moods better, wrote our own comics with speech bubbles, and think about what makes each of us "one of a kind." Today we read "The Wind Blew" by Pat Hutchins, and designed our own kites (now only if the wind would come on a day I wanted it to we could fly them :) ).
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| "Our cool, magic sunglasses help us see things in a whole new way!" |
