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Introducing the concept of gravity and magnetic force. Can you make the raindrop defy gravity and not fall back down to the ground? The children were asked to slowly move the raindrop up to the magnet. The children were amazed when they saw the magic!!! This magic we call science. The concept that different poles attract while same poles repel was mentioned and experienced.

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Today we talked about water pollution and how it affects rain water . We used shaving foam for clouds, water and food colouring.

The children filled a jar with water and sprayed shaving foam on the top of the water. They then added drops of food colouring represetning rain and watched it flow down from the cloud of shaving foam.
The colours represented pollution, the shaving foam clouds and the water represented the rain.
The children observed how the water slowly lost its transparency and became dull, hence polluting it.
And because the water is polluted, the rain that will fall from the clouds will the be polluted too, making a lot of damage to the sea animals, to the trees, and even, to us.

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Children were invited to pick a food colouring to dye white carnations. We had the opportunity to see the difference between each colour and left one into sterile water to show the children all stages that includes dilution.

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Children had the opportunity to do this fun challenge race. Racing water drops into groups of two.

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Children had the opportunity to experience this experiment using water, baby oil, shaving foam and food colouring to see the rain drops from the clouds.

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Children were invited to participate in various experiments. Observing ice melting into water. Feeling the ice and watching it melt in different stages.

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Children had the opportunity to observe how the water cycle works in a span of 2 or 3 days. The water in the bottle was suspended in different parts of the water cycle.

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Children had the choice to pick items from the classroom to guess which will either sink or float.
Observing different materials and textures, light and heavy, big and small in this activity.

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This experiment helped the children understand that
:If water is put in a freezer and left for a while, the  water gets very cold and will freeze solid.
:When the ice is taken out from the freezer and left at room temperature, it changes state from solid ice to liquid water.

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Using their own drinking bottles, the children were invited to compare sizes and think about a type of container that would hold more water than their own drinking bottle

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Floating and sinking activities

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Investigating capacity, density and buoyancy

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Investigating capacity, density and buoyancy

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Clear skies are always a great invitation to run outside in the sun! After all that rain there was a lot of evaporation happening!
We took outside with us our cloud spotters made of cardboard and the children observed the different shapes and sizes of the clouds. Happily naming each cloud according to their imagination :)
I took this opportunity to read the book, 'It looked like spilt milk' by Charles G. Shaw and 'Little Cloud' by Eric Carle which then followed by activities you will find under the 'Art' section

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The children were invited to experiment with sound using glasses and different amounts of water. The children enjoyed pouring different amounts of water into each glass and watching the water change colour because of the food colouring inside.
They then used plastic spoons, wooden spoons and stainless steel spoons to explore the difference in the sound each material made when it hit the glass.
The children noticed that the different amounts of water in the glasses made different sounds!
So I then took the activity to a different level : I took the children (and the glasses) to the piano where the children were invited to compare the sound pitch created by the piano keys to that of the water xylophone

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This experiment allows students to observe the water from the bag evaporating, condensing, falling like precipitation and collecting at the bottom.

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It had been raining quite heavily lately in our country so together we created a rain gauge to measure the amount of rain that feel during that week.

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The children eagerly checked the gauge everyday counting the little lines on the measuring ruler!