Easy snow science experiments kids can do at home. Fun winter STEM activities encouraging curiosity for nature and science in class or home!
Need extra practice with multiplication? This set is a sample from my winter version of 2-digit by 1-digit multiplication with regrouping practice. An answer key for each page is included. Thanks for stopping by Copper Classroom.
Last week was my first week in my new school teaching 6th-8th ELL students. To say I was nervous was an understatement. I never thought I would ever teach in middle but I'm actually loving
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Photo Source: whimsicalways.blogspot.com Melanie at Whimsical Ways shared this awesome winter graphing activity that we think would be a hit with your preschoolers. Supplies You'll Need Large poster board Plastic animal figurines Divide your poster board into two sections - "Animals that like snow" and "Animals that do not like snow". As a group, sort the animal figurines into the proper category discussing what you know about each animal's natural habitat, special characteristics, etc. that make them a good candidate for that particular group. Other considerations... This could be a fun magnet activity. Instead of using poster board, label a large cookie sheet or inexpensive oil pan and print photos of the animals {attaching a magnet strip to the back of each} for your students to sort. We think this is a fun science and math activity for your kiddos to tackle this winter. Be sure to visit Whimsical Ways for this and other great early childhood activities!
When the winter sniffles hit, you need a hearty homemade chicken soup to cure all. Nan’s chicken soup will fix everything.
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August self-care challenge! This end-of-summer self-care challenge is great if you need a bit of silliness and relaxation in your life!
Teach kids about the needs of seeds with this seed experiment that answers the question: "Do seeds need their seed coat to grow?"
Here is a simple fine motor activity using a spiky ball and loom bands. It's lots of fun for preschoolers or children needing to build their hand muscles for writing and gripping objects. Occupational therapist would also be very interested in this easy idea for kids.
You will love these Olympic-themed party ideas, from food to backyard games and lots of kid-friendly crafts! Who else is super excited about the Olympics starting? We cannot wait! Especially since it's now been 3 years since the last Olympic games. As a family, we decided that we're going to have an Olympic-themed party for the opening ceremonies, and my kids are already brainstorming ideas. There are so many fun ideas that we found, we just had to share with you guys. Which one of these ideas is sticking out to you? I want to make them all! This isn't
Everybody loves a good riddle once in a while and solving hard word searches on a regular basis can even improve your problem-solving skills and logical thinking. It makes your brain cells go wild while trying to come with the answer and when you do solve it, the feeling of accomplishment is more than gratifying. This time, we have prepared some word searches for you - simple yet very satisfying hidden words puzzles for you to solve.
The winter months are perfect for trying those elaborate recipes that fill your stomach and warm your heart. Stews and soups are the real stars of the kitchen for the next 3 months. In this article, we will tell you how to make the fabada asturiana recipe which is a twist on the typical Spanish pork stew recipes that you are used to seeing everywhere.
Did you know you could turn milk into plastic? I didn't. I had no idea! I did know that you can turn cream into butter, which is just what I was planning on doing with one of my Kindergarten classes back when I taught in the classroom. We love easy science experiments! There I was,
Here is a tutorial, as well as free printable ballerina templates and snowflake patterns to create whimsical little paper ballerina snowflakes. Hang them in your room, or even on the Christmas tree!
Free Mitten printables and hands-on mitten activities to go with the classic children's book The Mitten. Perfect for classroom or homeschool!
This simple melting ice science experiment allows students to discover what variables affect the speed at which ice melts. The materials needed are in your kitchen.
How to make the most comforting dish to get through the start of cold weather.
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A NO PREP art/language activity teachers can use any time. All you need is paper!
The Ogham alphabet is an ancient Celtic script. Every Ogham symbol derives its definition from mythology and symbolic tree meanings.
DIY Sensory Boards for Babies and Toddlers
1. DECANTACIÓN Consiste en dejar reposar el liquido que contiene partículas sólidas en suspensión. En el fondo del recipiente se va depositando el sedimento o precipitado y sobrenadando el liquido limpio. Luego, se trasvasa con cuidado el liquido ( menos denso) a otro recipiente. Esta técnica es utilizada también con líquidos no miscibles, como el agua y el aceite. Se emplea con frecuencia el embudo de Gibson, llamado comúnmente embudo de separación o decantación. se coloca en el embudo la mezcla de los líquidos no miscibles; después de un tiempo de reposo, cuando se hayan diferenciado las dos partes, se abren las llaves y se separan los líquidos. La capa superior pertenece al liquido menos denso y queda dentro del embudo. 2. FILTRACIÓN Este proceso se usa con frecuencia para separa sólidos no solubles en líquidos. la separación se hace a través de medios porosos que retienen las partículas solidas y dejan pasar el liquido. Medios porosos son: papel de filtro, fieltro, porcelana porosa, lana de vidrio, arena, carbón. 3. DESTILACIÓN Las disoluciones ( sistemas homogéneos) pueden separarse por cambios de estado ( congelación, evaporación, licuefacción). Para separar los componentes de una disolución se emplea con frecuencia la destilación. La destilación se basa en la diferencia de los puntos de ebullición de sus componentes. Se calienta la solución y se concentran los vapores. la sustancia que tiene menor punto de ebullición (mas volátil) se convierte en vapor antes que la otra, con lo cual se separan fácilmente después de condensadas. La destilación también se utiliza con fines purificativos de líquidos que contienen impurezas tan pequeñas que no pueden separarse mediante filtración. 4. CRISTALIZACIÓN Se utilizan aquí los puntos de solidificación: la solución se enfría hasta que uno de sus componentes alcance el punto de solidificación y cristalice. Se utiliza para purificar sólidos, disolviendo un solido impuro en el disolvente adecuado en caliente. Al bajar la temperatura, el primer solido se cristaliza, con lo cual estará libre de impurezas. 5. MAGNETISMO La separación magnética se vale de las propiedades magnéticas de ciertos materiales. Se utiliza un imán para separar sustancias cuando uno de sus componentes es magnético. 6. TAMIZAJE Este método se utiliza para separar dos o más sólidos cuyas partículas poseen diferentes grados de subdivisión. Para ejecutar el tamizaje, se hace pasar la mezcla por un tamiz, por cuyas aberturas caerán las partículas más pequeñas, quedando el material más grueso dentro del tamiz. Un ejemplo en el cual se utiliza el tamizaje es para separar una mezcla de piedras y arena. 7. LEVIGACIÓN Se utiliza una corriente de agua que arrastra los materiales más livianos a través de una mayor distancia, mientras que los más pesados se van depositando; de esta manera hay una separación de los componentes de acuerdo a lo pesado que sean. 8. EVAPORACIÓN Consiste en calentar la mezcla hasta el punto de ebullición de uno de los componentes, y dejarlo hervir hasta que se evapore totalmente. Este método se emplea si no tenemos interés en utilizar el componente evaporado. Los otros componentes quedan en el envase. Un ejemplo de esto se encuentra en las Salinas. Allí se llenan enormes embalses con agua de mar, y los dejan por meses, hasta que se evapora el agua, quedando así un material sólido que contiene numerosas sales tales como cloruro de sólido, de potasio, etc… 9. CROMATOGRAFIA La cromatografía es una técnica cuya base se encuentra en diferentes grados de absorción, que a nivel superficial, se pueden dar entre diferentes especies químicas. En la cromatografía de gases, la mezcla, disuelta o no, es transportada por la primera especie química sobre la segunda, que se encuentran inmóvil formando un lecho o camino.Ambos materiales utilizarán las fuerzas de atracción disponibles, el fluido (transportados), para trasladarlos hasta el final del camino y el compuesto inmóvil para que se queden adheridos a su superficie. 10. CENTRIFUGACIÓN Es un procedimiento que se utiliza cuando se quiere acelerar la sedimentación. Se coloca la mezcla dentro de una centrifuga, la cual tiene unmovimiento de rotación constante y rapido, lográndose que las partículas de mayor densidad, se vayan al fondo y las más livianas queden en la parte superior.
Both Baby E and I have not been feeling very well this week, which leaves my 3 year old, J, as the only healthy one in the house during the day. So I needed to find some great activities that would keep him busy while I dealt with a sick baby. Pulling out this activity […]
Each December, we teach about Wants and Needs Activities for Kindergarten. Since little learners love to discuss things they WANT to get from Santa, it is
Some days it's just too dreary or cold, or even too hot depending on where you live, for kids to go outside and get much needed recess time. But just because the weather isn't cooperating doesn't mean your students don't need time to take a break and play. They just need some indoor recess games!...
These must-try weather activities for kids are fun, hands-on ways to teach about temperatures, clouds, rain - even tornadoes!! This list has you covered.
Luv Bug is 34 months old This ended up being an off week for Tot School. Daddy was home at the beginning of the week, so we just enjoyed family time together. Toward the end of the week, Luv Bug pulled a muscle in her neck while sleeping. Poor baby woke up crying and holding her neck. I called her doctor and got her an appointment, though we had to wait over an hour and a half in the waiting room. She was in so much pain, she just layed on my lap and fell asleep. Unfortunately, that nap made her neck stiffen more, so she was screaming when the doctor tried to check her. The good news was that it was nothing serious, just a tight, pulled muscle. It was terrifying though, seeing my baby in such pain. She's pretty active too, so seeing her just lay in bed for 36 hours before trying to get up was scary. She's doing much better and is able to move well. She's still guarding her neck and favoring it on the right. Is there anything more heartbreaking than seeing your baby hurt, asking you to make it better, and NOT being able to? :( I had prepared several trays but she did not do them all. The ones we didn't get around to, I'll save for next week. I bought this game at a local discount store. The little things at the bottom left are catapults (sp?). You try to launch the monkeys onto the tree. Lots of fun. Luv Bug only needed a little help loading the monkeys. She was pretty good at aiming and figuring out how much pressure she needed to launch it just right. Luv Bug is very compassionate. This was so sweet. I launched a monkey a bit too high and he landed on the floor. Luv Bug ran over, picked him up and put all the other monkeys around him to make sure he was ok:) I bought these unit cubes at the dollar tree a few months ago, but this is the first time I put them out. I didn't give Luv Bug any direction, I wanted to see how she chose to play with these. She thought up so many ways to use them and played with these several times this week. She stacked them, and finished patterns I had made while she was playing with toys. (this was the only time I 'intitiated' anything with these. I just made patterns, she glanced over to see what I was doing and came over and finished on her own.) This was taken about an hour before the first time she got up since she hurt herself. She was playing with the blocks and asked for her cars. In this picture, Holly Shiftwell was trapped and needed the other cars to rescue her. The rescue cars got trapped too, so Luv Bug rescued them herself. Her magnetic pom poms. These are so much fun. I saw the idea first in this post over at 1+1+1=1. I added this 1-10 sticker sheet which I found over at Confessions of a Homeschooler. Carissa over at 1+1+1=1 put together this awesome Tot Time Notebook. Luv Bug loves this, but where it is kept, there are so many arts and crafts materials, that it gets overlooked. I put it on a tray and she went through the whole thing. Right now, she likes to trace and color each page as fast as she can so that she can wipe it off with a baby wipe. She did this a lot! She's been asking to glue things lately, so I gathered some items (2 of each in different sizes) so she could make a BIG/little collage. She did really well. After she finished gluing everything on, she went back and put a drop of glue on each item. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are a few other winter activities we were able to get to. This handprint polar bear we did 2 weeks ago and I realized that I forgot to take a picture of it. I found the idea on pinterest and I thought it was too cute. Another craft I forgot to take pictures of. This was done last week. I had made these with the preschool class I used to have. Mine is the boring one on the bottom. I love how cute Luv Bug's turned out. We glued magnetic strips to the bottoms and they are now hanging on our fridge. She was playing with her Arctic Tube from her winter sensory bin. We put the pipe cleaner into the igloo and she had her animals follow the 'path' home. Snowflake matching from Confession of a Homeschooler's letter s pre-k unit. I set out 3 winter mini books. Luv Bug ran to get her crayons so she could color them. The first one is called, What Can We Do In The Snow, found here at Hubbard's Cupboard. This next one is called Snowflakes. I found it here years ago, but am having trouble finding it now. This is called Fun in the Snow, I found free at TPT. This patterning activity I found over at Musings of Me. Unfortunatly, it is no longer available. I downloaded this igloo alphabet matching file folder game here. I didn't think when I assembled this that she would need the igloos side by side, so I had to cut the file folder apart. We played this Winter Bingo (from TPT) game again, big hit with Luv Bug. We watched The Snowy Day from Scholastic. We had planned a playdate for the end of the week (we cancelled when Luv Bug hurt herself), so one night after Daddy came home, I went upstairs to vacuum and put some things in the attic. I set out these snowmen alphabet cards from this unit I purchased at TPT. I set out the capital ones in a row (we somehow lost E before we even had a chance to play. Then I hid the lowercase cards around the room. While Daddy watched her, Luv Bug ran around to find the hidden lowercase cards and match them to the capital ones. I asked him to take pictures for me. (I absolutely love this pic) She called up to me when she'd finished. This is what I saw when I came downstairs. Excuse the mess. I was getting ready to vacuum downstairs next, so everything was put on furniture. -------------------------------------------------------------------- A few random things we did this week. (Not neccesarily taken during tot school time) She loves playing with her magnetic doll. (Thanks Aunt S. and Uncle J.) This was one of her infant toys. I forgot about it until I was cleaning. She still loves it, so we may keep it out awhile. I've been seeing these water beads on a lot of blogs, so I finally ordered some. They are awesome. Luv Bug has been asking every day for them. (Little ones need careful supervision while playing with these. If swallowed, they can cause intestinal blockage). I love how different they look in different containers. Just a cute outdoor shot, looking at a worm. All in all a fun week, minus Luv Bug's injury, of course. Looking Forward to Daddy having another long weekend! -------------------------------------------------------- Some of the books we enjoyed this week:
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The Mitten by Jan Brett is a beloved favorite. This is the perfect way to take learning in-depth and bring more of the story to life for young readers. There are 9 activities (25 pages) that focus on the themes throughout the story. Most activities can be done before, during, and after based on your child's interests/needs. This is great to pair with any curriculum, especially a snow or January theme, or give as a gift for someone who loves the book. This is designed for preschool and early readers (K/1st). This pack includes: -An activity guide and the following activities. -Story sequence -Animal 3-Part Card Puzzles -Pull String Story -Opposite Mittens -Snowball Count -Mitten Graphing -Mitten Lacing -Mitten Making -Who Am I? To see a break down of what is inside and how our family is using this packet, visit our Instagram page @Mama_Makes_School and look at our Doing Work and Preschool Pack highlights. If you like this style but need a different level, special education accommodation, or theme message me and I can make it to order for you. You can follow me on Instagram @Mama_Makes_School to follow our homeschool journey and see new products. Also, check out my blog to see how we are using these in our homeschool journey, and for other homeschool ideas and fun. https://mamamakesschool.wordpress.com/ This is a digital download. After you complete your purchase the download will be available to you. This is for one license for personal use only at home or in the classroom. This product may not be sent to others to use within their homes/classrooms. This product may not be copied and resold as a whole or in pieces. Please review the terms of use before using.
My husband made a couple of warming huts for the really cold days around here. He cut a plastic barrel in half, then cut a round hole on the the top and a door opening on the side. The hole is big enough to fit a heat lamp that has a "cage" over it. There is a gap between the solid part of the fixture and the edge of the hole to allow excess heat to escape. The heat lamp is held in place with plastic tie wraps (the white things sticking straight up). And although they aren't really visible, there are small holes drilled in the top to let heat escape. I didn't actually measure it, but the top of the barrel comes to about the bottom of my knee. We tested it a lot to make sure it didn't get too hot. Not only do I not want to overheat goats, but I also don't want to burn the barn down. When I set it up I put a small amount of straw on the floor and then a towel on that to keep the kids from pushing straw into a pile which might bring it too close to the light. The plastic barrel was…
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A quinzee is a simple shelter made by hollowing out a big pile of snow. Here’s how to build one.
Do you need a hands-on, sensory lesson to teach about kind words? You will love this! Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and even older kids! Also part of the Virtual Book Club for Kids!
When I left the hospital the night that he was admitted, I sat in the parking lot gasping with big ugly sobs and looking for someone to blame — beginning with myself. I'm his mother, and I'm the only consistent parent he's ever had. As I finally made my way home, with tears streaming down my face and my mouth open in a silent scream of pain, all I could ask myself was "what have I done?" How could I have allowed my son to be hurt so deeply, and in so many ways?
This simple melting ice science experiment allows students to discover what variables affect the speed at which ice melts. The materials needed are in your kitchen.
