Tag Archives: Science

Mar27

Rainbow Art

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Lil Bebe Academy

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We are all connected!

Children hand prints demonstrate togetherness – do you think we are all that different?

Building a rainbow from each child’s hand print

Supplies

Demonstration

Here we go..

Each child takes their turn with the color on the arch…

After the Red and Orange we had to find an easier way to get 6 kids to be patient with taking turns

We decided each child should hand print all their colors and take turns with that technique…it worked

Miss Fareeda’s hand look so colorful after all that work..

Jan10

The lonely balloon

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Lil Bebe Academy

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A purple balloon that was left over from a get well party I had for my own kids caused a stir in the daycare. It so happened that the lonely balloon was bouncing all over the room when one kid got it and asked, ‘why is it up there and not down on the table?’

And so a demonstration ensued.

The children were asked to let go of the balloon and observe what happened.

Giggles filled the air as they desperately tried to catch the lonesome balloon from way up there.

One child said, ‘I know how to make this stay down here!’ And he sure did – he clipped the balloon onto the clothes pin and it was going no where.

See…I helped to secure it for them:)

It was good that the children though preschoolers had fun with science. I believe it was too abstract for them to understand the use of gas in the helium balloon. Following this activity the children asked for more balloons and because I had no more of the helium balloons they were given the skinny ones to play with. As you can see they had fun knocking things and hmm each other.

Balloons can be choking hazards so, if you decide to play with these in your childcare keep an active eye on the children or do not use with children under 2 years old.

Apr13

Planting Seeds

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Lil Bebe Academy

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Adding dirt to the tin

Adding pebbles to support proper drainage

: Adding the seeds

Even the babies had their share ~

Pumpkin Seeds

Summer came early for us. We had great weather and decided to plant some pumpkin seeds. All the children were involved in this beloved activity. This was a messy project but its science in the making. It was a success because it helped each child take turns, use mathematics, learn about gardening and more importantly learn the science of growing plants with seeds. Happily we were outdoors and the mess was nothing a little hose could not take care of.

We planted these seeds in March and the plants emerged in late April. Each child got to take their own tin home. Hopefully they will have pumpkins for Fall.