We had our second curriculum celebration/breakfast today! As the children continued to express their enthusiasm with science experiments, we chose to celebrate the day with two of our favorites: Making Bubbles and Making trails in Ice.
Our children know the steps to making bubbles by heart (they can recite them pretty well)! The Steps are: 1. Pour water into a cup. 2. Squirt in a few drops of soap. 3. Take a straw. 4. Blow bubbles! Then they had a choice of using a different tool to blow bubbles. The choices were small straws, big straws, and pipe cleaners. Lastly, the children put salt or sugar into their soap water and tried to make bubbles too! The purpose of this particular experiment was to see if they could identify challenges such as not drinking the soap water by accident and finding solutions to those challenges.
The children always loved playing with ice. They were also very intuitive about how ice changes into water and water changes into ice. This led us to try out some of their hypotheses. We experimented first by putting salt on parts of the ice. It was amazing to see the reactions of our children. Nina noticed what happened to her ice and said, "It(salt) went inside the ice!" "It made holes!"
Our job as educators and parents are to provide all of the mediums and tools to let the children experience and come up with their own understanding of a topic instead guiding them to the "right" answers that we know as adults.
Thank you so much for all of our families' contribution, participation, and support for the curriculum celebration today!
