Monday, March 23rd
RAINBOW BRIDGE
Your friendly neighborhood Leprechaun needs help getting to his pot of gold. Your challenge is to build a rainbow! Use the clay to hold down the pipe cleaners. If the clay is too hard microwave it for 10 seconds. Have fun and get creative! You can use any other supplies to make it work at home.
Your friendly neighborhood Leprechaun needs help getting to his pot of gold. Your challenge is to build a rainbow! Use the clay to hold down the pipe cleaners. If the clay is too hard microwave it for 10 seconds. Have fun and get creative! You can use any other supplies to make it work at home.
Monday, March 30th
Hello JK!!! Hope all of you are doing well! I miss you all so much. I taped a video of a liquid rainbow experiment that I would love for you all to watch. I also have a link to a worksheet for you to work with me during the experiment. If you have some of the liquids I used today in the experiment you can try to make your own liquid rainbow to see the density differences of the liquids for yourself. Only if it is ok with your parents. Hope you all have an amazing week. Stay healthy!
Week Of April 6th
Hello Jr. K!! I am loving seeing all of your projects and hard work. I really miss seeing you all in person but I am glad that I get to see you in pictures at least! I made another video of one of my other favorite books for you to watch! Miss you all!!
Love,
Mrs. Erickson
Love,
Mrs. Erickson
Easter Stem Challenge
Since Easter is next week I thought it would be fun to get in the Easter spirit with an Easter themed challenge. This one includes my best friend Ms. S!! Since we are not at school and I don't have the same supplies for everyone to use, you can use ANYTHING you want to make this challenge successful. The more creative and innovative the better! Have fun. Can't wait to show Ms. S what all of you inventors come up with.
Week Of April 20th
Hello JR K!! This week we will be reading the book "Papa's Mechanical Fish" by Candace Fleming. Please watch the video below of me reading this amazing book! This book will set us up for next week's activity learning about submarines!
Week Of April 27th
This week we are going to learn about submarines! Please watch the following videos. Hope you are having an amazing week!
Week of May 4th
Please watch the three videos below. If you have time this week try the Butterfly Stem Challenge! Hope everyone is doing well! I miss you all!
Butterfly Stem Challenge
Below is the packet of a Butterfly Stem Challenge we are doing for STEM this week. You are to create a structure to hang a chrysalis from so that your butterfly will be protected from it's predators. You can use any items you have from your house to built and create your structure. Make sure to plan it out before you start to build. I can't wait to see all of your creations!
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Week of May 11th
Good morning JK!! This week we will be talking about birds and their nests. Please watch the videos below. If you have time and it is OK with your parents go on an adventure to search for items outside to build a nest of your own. Only try to use items that you find outside like sticks, string, leaves and flowers. Have fun!
Week of May 18th
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STEP 1: Collect leaves STEP 2:Crush leaves
Step 5: Show your beautiful piece of nature art to me!
Week of May 25th
Making a marshmallow Catapult
STEP-BY-STEP Instructions to build your Catapult
STEP 3: Take 2 craft sticks and tie a rubber band on one of the ends. Try to tie the band close to the edge of the stick.STEP 5: Tie the rubber band in a cross fashion joining the two pieces. The closer the 7 stick bundle gets to the edge, the more leverage the catapult will have. |
STEP 4: Insert the 7 sticks banded together through the 2 stick bundle as shown below.STEP 6: Use a few rubber bands and attach the plastic spoon to the end. |
Week of June 1st
What you’ll need to have on hand:
- Paper plates
- Various household supplies (cardboard, straws, cotton balls, string, etc)
- Glue (we found tacky glue and hot glue worked best)
- Scissors
- Marbles
The goal of this project is to create a maze that fits a marble, contained inside a paper plate, that works completely, and doesn’t break when playing with it. Kids will have to use quite a few skills to get this design to work.
What designs worked best? What designs were not as good? What were the best parts and worst parts of each design? How could the kids improve on them in the future?
HOW DO THEY WORK?
When you squeeze the bottle air is forced out of the straw in the bottle and pushes against the rocket straw ( which is sealed at one end ). The force of air on the rocket straw makes it fly through the air.
MATERIALS NEED FOR YOUR ROCKET
- Empty Squeezy water bottles with a sports cap
- Cardboard
- Straws – one wider than another
- Scissors
- Glue/sellotape
- Blu tack or Plasticine
INSTRUCTIONS ON MAKING YOUR ROCKET LAUNCHER
BOTTLE ROCKET
Lift up the sports cap of your bottle and push in half of your thinner straw. Seal around the straw and sports cap with blu tack or plasticine. Squeeze the bottle and make sure air is coming out of the top of the straw ONLY, not from the sides.
Straw Rocket
Draw and cut out a cardboard or paper rocket. Seal one end of your wider straw using sellotape. This straw must fit over the top of your thinner straw. Blow down the straw and make sure no air can escape from the top. Attach your card or paper rocket onto one side of the straw with double sided tape. Place the rocket onto your bottle launcher and squeeze the bottle hard. Your straw rocket should shoot into the air. Have fun!