Science | I used to sleep

June’s Mom Kirsten was so sweet to host our first “official” science day. She planned a day full of magnet learning. At the table she had a magnet hanging from the ceiling and the kids got to test all kinds of different items to see if they’re magnetic. They had a little sheet to check yes or no. The kids had so much fun with this they continued to collect items around the house to see if they were magnetic. The kids took turns spelling their names on the fridge in magnets, built magnetic matchbox cars, played a magnetic fishing game, played with different kinds of magnets and got to eat snacks and watch some magic school bus. 🙂

Kirsten did such a great job! At the end of the day my son said, “We did a lot of fun. And we did Science”. 🙂 Thanks for hosting June!

Boston playing with different magnets

Name spelling

Charlie working on his name

Testing if the items are magnetic or not

June’s turn

Kirsten taught them a little magnet history and facts. 🙂

We changed things up for writing time today and instead of tracing or writing, I made the boys each their own name puzzle. So we spelled out our names and hooked our puzzles together. The boys did great at spelling their names and on the second try they both could do it all on their own.

Our lesson today was about our five senses. So we talked a little about our senses, then we learned a five senses song. After that, we practiced using each of our senses.

For sight we made a tornado in a bottle and watched it go.
For hearing the boys closed their eyes, while I made noises by snapping, whistling, banging my hands on the floor, or clanging together pots and pans. The boys guessed what noise I was making.
For smell the boys closed their eyes again and I had them smell different things like Caramel candles, and peanut butter. Again they had to guess what they were smelling.
Taste was extra fun, because again, the boys closed their eyes as they put different treats in their mouths and had to guess what they were tasting. We had marshmallows, peppermints, almonds and chocolate.

Touch was probably the coolest sense. For this activity we heated up a 3 bars of ivory soap (1:30 sec) each bar in the microwave. The bar expanded and we brought it outside to play in the foam.

Once we had finished making a mess outside we popped some popcorn and read Halloween/Fall stories for 30 minutes. We’ve replaced journal time with story time this month and we’ve been loving it.

Also our artist for this month is Leonardo Davinci and our Composer is Camille Saint-Saens so we listen to Carnival of the animals every day.

Happy Weekend!