More Ephemeral Art Exploration.....

Beach Art in November......

We have been looking at work by Andy Goldsworthy lately. I think it inspired our beach day today....

Ephemeral Fall Art!

Spiders!

We have been talking about spiders quite a bit lately and looking at many different spider books

Here are some drawings that came out of our group discussion on shapes and lines of spiders....

A Study of Sunflowers

In my 3s and 4s class we have been looking at Van Gogh's sunflowers closer and took some time to work on drawing our own....

More Rainy Day Science Magic

Ice Fishing!

First get a piece of string wet in a glass filled 4" hight with water. Next, put the wet string on the ice cube, sprinkle salt on the ice cube. Hold the string on the ice cube for 20 seconds. Then, lift the string! The salt helps lower the water's freezing point!

 First make a lump of playdough in the middle of a plate and put a candle in the center. Next, pour water around the lump of playdough. Light the candle and place a glass over the top of the candle. The candle will slowly go out and the water will get sucked up the side of the glass!

All of these experiments came from the book
"Magic Tricks with Science" by Samantha Bell

Rainy Day Science Magic

All of these experiments came from the book
"Magic Tricks with Science" by Samantha Bell

First blow up a balloon

Next, place a piece of tape

Then carefully and slowly poke 2 pins through the tape

You will see that it doesn't pop!!

Salty Egg Experiment....

First, scoop 5 scoops of salt into a glass of water

stir to dissolve

In another glass of water just use plain water

Placed the egg in the salty water and it floated!

Placed the egg in the clear water and it was a sinker!

You will see that salt makes the egg float!

Try more or less salt and see what happens!

Powerfully Strong Egg Experiment.....
We placed 4 eggs in the center and put 4 books on top without a crack!
Next We moved the eggs to the outter edge and no cracking again!
You will see how strong egg shells are!
(See how many books you can stack on the eggs before you crack!)