Monday, March 23
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.
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.
Monday, March 30th
Good morning!! Today we will be starting to take a look at MATTER! I have a video for you to watch and I will read you a book about what matter is. After watching the video please take the time to draw 4 different items from your room made up of matter. I would love for you to color it, I know how amazing you are at drawing! Enjoy the video!!
Week Of April 6th
Hello Kindergarten!! Wow I am missing you all sooo much!! Hope all of you are healthy and having fun learning at home. I read another one of my favorite books and recorded it. Hope you like it too!!
Miss you!
Mrs. Erickson
Miss you!
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 Kindergarten! This week we will be reading "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 activities of learning about submarines!
Week Of April 27th
This week we will be learning about submarines! Please watch the two videos below. Thank you, hope you are all having an amazing week!
Week of May 4th
Please watch the three videos below. If you have time you can try the Butterfly Stem Challenge! I miss you all!! Hope you all have an amazing week!
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!
butterflystemchallenge_grace.pdf | |
File Size: | 611 kb |
File Type: |
Week of May 11th
Good Morning Kindergarten!! Please watch the videos below! Have an amazing week!
Bird Nest Challenge
For this week we will be getting outside and collecting materials around your neighborhood and backyard. If it is "OK" with your parents. You are going to try to create a birds nest. You can use any materials that you find outside. Sticks, string, leaves or seeds. Try to come up with a creative way to hold all of these materials together the way a bird would. Below is a file with all of the directions. Have fun!
birdnestsengineeringchallengeprojectgrace.pdf | |
File Size: | 1589 kb |
File Type: |
Week of May 18th
tree-trunk-line-drawing-8.jpg | |
File Size: | 33 kb |
File Type: | jpg |
STEP: 1- Collect Leaves STEP 2: Smashleaves
STEP 5: Show me your nature art!
Week of May 25th
Making a Marshmallow Catapult
STEP-BY-STEP Instructions to Build Your Catapult
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
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!
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!