Your little ones love to explore with the many science activities that we do throughout the week.

These activities not only engage your child, but explain the physical properties of objects, teach cause and effect, and provide the necessary hands-on experience most conducive to learnng.

For this activity, w used alka seltzer tablets and film canisters to make rockets.

To do this, we mixed the ingredients, and poured them into film canisters.

These film canisters were decorated like rockets.

Upon mixing the ingredients, we squealed as we watched our rockets soar to the sky!

Sensory Play includes any activity that stimulates your young child’s senses: touch, smell, taste, movement, balance, sight and hearing.

Sensory activities facilitate exploration and naturally encourage children to use scientific processes while they play, create, investigate and explore.

The sensory activities allow children to refine their thresholds for different sensory information helping their brain to create stronger connections to process and respond to sensory information.

As part of our Planet’s week, we decided to create the surface of Mars.

With some pasta, red sand, and kidney beans, we learned about the composition of the soil on Mars, and then we made it!

Scientists have long thought that massive planets like Neptune and Uranus which contain relatively tiny rocky cores covered with a mantle of slurried water, ammonia, and methane ices and surrounded by a thick atmosphere—are subject to rain made with literal diamonds.

Now researchers have synthesized the process in a lab, showing how such conditions might occur. Their results support this idea.

To recreate this process in our class, we created our very own Neptune s with glass beads and play dough. In our classroom, we love to play with play dough because it has so many developmental benefits!

For one, improves fine motor skills as students manipulate the dough. Secondly, it encourages divergent thinking as students build their own creations. Lastly, it builds creativity, as students use their imaginations!