With The Flow

TODAY'S ACTIVITY
Building on prior knowledge of working with water and oil, we decided to make "wave tubes", or as our more daring students like to call them, "lava tubes." The children love affecting and observing the fluid dynamics between the two liquids. Additionally, the construction of them was quite interesting, as each drop of water color remained a sinking bead until agitated. Another discovery was the magnifying property of a tube filled with water. Can you guess the identity of this large-eyed creature?




CONSTRUCTIVE LITERACY
We have a manipulative toy called "Construction Builders", though I would change the name to something more fitting like "Arcs and Lines". Here Saiff-Deen engaged in the complex activity of creating letters with these elements to spell his own name. Every day we are pleased to see that literacy does not start and stop at the reading/writing table.

TODAY'S STORY
Chapter 10 of My Father's Dragon, by Ruth Stiles Gannett. This chapter concludes the first book and the preview period for the series of stories. We will next engage in making props and maps to use in the formal reading of the story. Our students have warmed to the cumulative nature of chapter books and relish the opportunity to demonstrate mastery of previous events that lead to the current chapter. Additionally, the props lend themselves to critical thinking and applied knowledge. The story is so good that they are eager to hear it all again before launching into the second book in the series, Elmer And The Dragon.