Science Activity: Color Telescopes

We gave the children cardboard tubes and helped them cover one end with colored cellophane. The allowed the children to view their surroundings in various colors.

Art Activity: Wet Chalk Drawings

For this activity we gave the children colored construction paper and colored chalk that had been sitting in water. We wanted the children to see what effects the water had on the chalk.

Music Activity: Glow Stick Dancing

For this activity we gave each child a glow stick and let them dance around in the dark. They had a blast doing this.

Story Book for August 5, 2009

Our story book for August 5th was My Silly Book of Colors by Susan Amerikaner. This book introduces different colors through the antics of various animals.

Math Activity: Circle Seriation

This was a very simple math activity. We gave the children brass rings of various sizes and asked them to arrange them from smallest to largest.

Art Activity: Lollipops

For this activity we used an old record player to paint with. We gave the children circle shaped paper, taped it to the record player, and then turned on the record player. The children painted on the paper while it spun around on the record player. After the paint dried we attached a stick to the paper and displayed them as lollipops.

Story Book for August 3, 2009

Our story book for August 3rd was What Is Round? by Rebecca Dotlich. A very good picture book that introduces the children to items that are circles and round in shape.