I am SO excited to share what has been happening in first grade! We spent the week preparing to become first grade scientists so that we could launch our very first project on Friday! Students came in from lunch and found that our classrooms had been transformed into a science laboratory!!! They put on 'lab coats' and 'observation glasses' and got ready to explore a new mixture! Students mixed corn starch and water to create...OOBLIK! This is a very mysterious mixture because sometimes it "felt slimy and slippery" and sometimes it felt "hard as a rock." Scientists were able to scoop it, squeeze it, try to roll it into a ball, etc. I encourage you to ask your first grade scientist what they noticed in this exploration (...this is a relatively easy exploration to try at home...the mixture is just 2 parts cornstarch to 1 part water!).
I am so excited to keep exploring with my first grade scientists! Be sure to ask your child to share their learning each day...they are becoming, after all,
'official' scientists!
'official' scientists!