The children in Room 5 have been especially interested in water and its different forms. Today we took bath bombs and first just observed them before placing them in the water! We made predictions about what was going to happen when we placed it in the water. 

Some of our predictions were "it's going to melt" "it will go away"

 Then we watched what happened when we put it in the water and then talked about how the bath bomb changed!

"It looks like a rock" "Yea it fizzy" ​

The kids in Room 5 this year have been enjoying doing their own science experiments! Each of the kids took some baking soda and vinegar mixed with water color and watch what happened while we mixed the colored vinegar into the baking soda. They had so much fun watching it fizz and the colors mix together!

Our teachers have been working diligently all week to get their classrooms all ready for the start of the new school year this Monday!

In honor of National Donut Day Room 5 celebrated by making donuts and opening up a donut shop! First, we made our own donuts and each child designed some donuts of their own. When the kids saw how delicious their donuts looked they decided it was a good idea to open up a 'Donut Shop!' 

Some of the kids made money and some decided to make some other kinds of donuts to sell. They talked about what kinds of donuts people would like the most and how much they could sell them for. Then, we decided it was a good idea to sell some milk and coffee with our donuts! After all of our products were ready we opened up our shop and the kids sold donuts to one another! Happy National Donut Day!!!

Some of the students in Room 5 started talking at breakfast time one day about different kinds of fruits. Then it got brought up again during playtime in the kitchen later... 

"I think this is an orange"

"This is strawberry"

"No that rasberry"

Because of their interest in fruits a grapefruit, tangerine, blood orange and regular orange were purchased and brought into the classroom. First we cut up the fruits and noticed how inside all the fruits looked a little different even though the outsides looked a lot alike. We used our sense of touch and smell with the fruits. Then we decided to use the fruits to paint! We loved watching how the fruits stamped on our papers!

Today we took a trip outside and observed what we saw all around us- the sun, leaves on the ground, cars, houses, buildings. Then we made observational drawings of those things we saw in the world around us and talked about them as we drew!

We have been really working with 'process art' in Room 5! The kids are especially interested in making their own materials that they can use for art projects! So this time we decided to look up a recipe to make our own puffy paint. All of the kids helped make the paint by following a recipe and then of course had a blast using the paint to make colorful artwork of their own! 

Since we are still so interested in the weather and snow we decided to do a science experiment where we took frozen baking soda and shaving cream to make our own packable snow! We talked about how it felt in our hands and had so much fun making snow balls, snowmen and all sorts of things!

Our friends in Room 5 have been especially curious about the snow. We have found different ways to incorporate this in our classroom. We used our sensory table to make our own "snow" and then we were curious if snow could be different colors. So we spent time talking about this and using water colors to paint our own snow in the room. We loved watching the snow slowly turn different colors and watching the colors mix.

Room 5 is still busy and engaged on our 'Spider Project!' We had a spider expert come in to talk to the students about things they wondered about spiders. We also created our own spider web in our classroom based on what our students' ideas were for creating the web. On Family Night our friends and family helped create clay spiders of our very own based on what we have learned so far.  Then our explorations led us us to the Indianapolis Museum of Art where we explored the Hundred Acre Woods and kept a special look out for spiders! We can't wait to see where this project takes us next!