Posted by kavery508 | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on January 22, 2018
The Great Kindness Challenge is on! In a joint effort with schools around the country, Floral St. is encouraging students to participate in this event by completing as many acts of kindness as they can using a recommended checklist as a guide. The checklist will come on Monday. Students are encouraged to check off items they have completed each day until this Friday. I will explain how they can complete the items recommended for school, and I will leave time during each day for them to check them off. Please return the checklist each morning so I can help students manage the list. I’m looking forward to an awesome week!
The Olympics are coming! I love everything about the games–not least because they offer kids the opportunity to research local athletes who will represent our country in Pyeongchang; explore maps from participating countries; learn about the Olympics from a historical perspective; and collect and analyze data related to medals awarded. We’ll be doing all this and more! You can share the learning with your child by visiting the Team USA website, where you will find info on the athletes–Massachusetts is particularly well-represented, especially in hockey! Additional info, including photos and videos can be found at the official Olympics website.
This week we will use scientific investigation to answer these questions: Do all liquids evaporate like water? If not, can water evaporate out? What then is left behind? We will use water as a baseline and compare it to solutions of salt water and water with food coloring. Here’s a link showing how to do one such investigation at home: http://www.shirleys-preschool-activities.com/salt-solution-experiment.html. I encourage you to try other solutions (e.g. water and ???) and send us your results!
