IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

First of all, what a beautiful day today was!  We enjoyed outside during recess, then we did yoga outside, then we read Charlotte’s Web and ate snack outside…everyone  just LOVED it!

Yesterday when I walked into the classroom, I noticed there were two big boxes in the room.  When the children walked in, some asked, “What are those boxes for?”  So, after Reader’s Workshop we had a wonderfully engaging conversation about what the boxes were for, and each child that offered their suggestion said some form of rocket should be made!  Some of the children went over to the boxes to describe what we should do!

Then this afternoon while some friends continued to work on their paper towel tube rockets, some other friends drew plans for what they wanted the rocket to look like.  While these two things were happening, some friends started working on a mural with oil pastels.  They added some beautiful rockets to our mural.  Each week we will continue to add “space” objects to our mural as we learn about them.

The last thing that we did during our project work time was have a fun balloon rocket race.  The children tied two lines of fishing lines from one chair to another chair.  Then, we blew up balloons and attached them to two straws.  Then the children released the balloons and off they went!  It was so fun.  The children were counting down (like real countdowns) then cheering for both friends who were releasing the balloons.  After we cleaned up from our project work time, we had a great discussion about how this balloon experiment worked.  Emily said that when the air went out the balloon went forward!   Madeline S. said that it stopped when the air went out.  Then, Malachi offered some great connections to rockets in that he said it was just like when the gas and fire goes out of rockets-they stop!

What a wonderful day!!

Malachi, Isaac, and Selam working with Miss Kesler on some plans for our rocket!

Tevona doing a beautiful job drawing a rocket on our mural.

Miss Templeton helping Heaven and Madeline P. get ready for their balloon rocket race!

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