This week, we’ve been looking at how creatures survive.  First, we colored some animals with bright, pretty colors.  We took them out and put them around the playground,  then noticed how easy it was to spot them from a distance.  Too easy to find – those guys would get eaten quickly! We went in and [...]

An introduction to scientific inquiry – Good science starts with a question, so start our study of the scientific method, I brought in two pumpkins and something I’ve always wondered about.  Every year, I set pumpkins on the front porch through October, and they look shiny and pretty for weeks – until I cut them, [...]

  Sometimes two brains are better than one!  We’ve spent some time the past couple of days filling out study guides together for the upcoming Social Studies test.  It’s interesting to see the different ways the kids decide to share the workload – some of the pairs look everything up together and discuss the answers, [...]

Can you see the frogs?  We snuck into the outdoor classroom last Tuesday to see if we could find any.  With all the dry weather, the pond was much lower than usual, so we were able to see several!   Later in the week, we experimented a little with some place value blocks to try [...]

We are studying the organisms (plants and animals) and interactions in three of Missouri’s ecosystems.  Although we’ve made several trips to the outdoor classroom, the animals in these ecosystems just won’t line up for us to see!  On this day, we used posters provided from Missouri Department of Conservation to see an artist’s rendering of animals [...]