Spring is the season after winter and before summer. Days become longer and weather gets warmer too.
Let's
explore the environment and discover new things. Let's learn about
different animals, plants, and other elements of nature.
Good Morning It's Such A Beautiful Day
The Weather
Rainbow Song
Rainbows are often seen once the clouds part after the rain or a storm and the sun shines once again.
My favourite color is...
Steve and Maggie: "Magic weather"
Butterfly, Ladybird, Bumblebee
This is a simple song that is great for exploring bugs. Use it when you are exploring bugs and insects
In the spring we can see many bugs around: butterflies, bees,
dragonflies, fireflies, mosquitoes, ladybirds, The world of bugs is
enormous!!! Some of them are beautiful, but others can be really
annoying because they bite. Take a look.
First of all, watch this video to learn the names of some bugs:
What is it?
Crawl Like A Caterpiller
Now let´s sing along: "Bug´n´roll"
Finally, a new episode ofSteve and Maggie: "Garden animals"
Butterflies
The
life cycle of a butterfly is amazing!It is a metamorphosis from a
little caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly. It goes through 4 stages:
egg- caterpillar- cocoon- butterfly
Storytime: "The very hungry caterpillar" by Eric Carle
We are exploring spectacular snow! Whether it snows where you live or not, you can explore snow with these crafts, activities and more for learning and fun at home.
Every fall, I look forward to the
beautiful colours as the green leaves on the trees change to yellow,
orange, brown, and red. But why does this happen?
To understand why leaves change
colour, you need to understand why they’re green to begin with. Most
colours in living things are caused by chemicals called pigments. Leaves are green because they’re filled with a green pigment called chlorophyll (clore-oh-fill), which plants use to get energy from the sun.
Leaves contain other pigments too,
but you usually can’t see them because there’s just so much chlorophyll.
Here’s an experiment you can do to separate out the different colours
in leaves.
What you need:
Green leaves
Jar or drinking glass
Isopropyl alcohol or nail polish remover
Wooden spoon
Absorbent white paper (you can use blotting paper, paper towels, or coffee filters)
Scissors
Pencil
Clothespin or binder clip
First, collect some green leaves. If
all the leaves in your neighbourhood have already changed colour, try
using spinach leaves from the grocery store. Tear the leaves into small
pieces and drop them into the bottom of the glass.
Get an adult to help you with this
next part. Add about a tablespoon of rubbing alcohol or nail polish
remover, enough to cover the torn-up leaves. Then use the blunt end of a
wooden spoon to mash the leaves and the solvent into a paste.
Use the scissors to cut your
absorbent white paper into a strip about an inch wide and about as tall
as the glass. Wrap one end around the pencil, using the clothespin or
binder clip to hold it in place, and lay the pencil horizontally across
the top of the glass, so that the bottom centimetre of the strip is in
the liquid at the bottom.
Now, wait for about an hour. It could
take more or less time depending on what kind of solvent and paper you
used. The solvent will work its way up the strip of paper, bringing the
different pigments with it, and spreading them out.
Pull the strip out and let it dry. The result should look something like this:
Look how much more green there is
than any other colour! That’s because the leaves contain more
chlorophyll than any other pigment. The other colours are always there,
but you usually can’t see them because they’re washed out by the green.
In the fall, when the weather gets
cooler and the days get shorter, plants stop collecting energy from the
sun. They stop making new chlorophyll, and the chlorophyll they already
have breaks down, so the green colour disappears. What gets left behind
are the other pigments that you usually don’t see.
This kind of experiment is called chromatography
(crow-ma-tog-ra-fee), and you can use it to separate the colours in
other things too. Try it with black ink – you’ll be surprised!
And now...
Let's have a tender moment, a relaxing moment...so cute.
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Welcome
to the classroom!
We love to play, learn, create and sing together in
the classroom.
Hello
song
we
are getting ready for our first day at school! School is an exciting
place to be, with lots of new things to learn and discove
Now,
I'm packing
my backpack to get ready for school! What
about you?
What do you do early in the morning?
How
do you get to school?We can
talk about different ways to get to school: walking, riding a bike,
driving or taking a bus.
Shall
we play a game?
Simon Says ride your bike! Simon Says walk!
The
wheels on the bus
And be careful when you walk to school.
Red Light Green Light (song)
Today we start school, but...Tell
me, what day is it, today?
Spring is the season after winter and before summer. Days become longer and weather gets warmer too.
Let's
explore the environment and discover new things. Let's learn about
different animals, plants, and other elements of nature.
Good Morning It's Such A Beautiful Day
The Weather
Rainbow Song
Rainbows are often seen once the clouds part after the rain or a storm and the sun shines once again.
My favourite color is...
Steve and Maggie: "Magic weather"
Butterfly, Ladybird, Bumblebee
This is a simple song that is great for exploring bugs. Use it when you are exploring bugs and insects
In the spring we can see many bugs around: butterflies, bees,
dragonflies, fireflies, mosquitoes, ladybirds, The world of bugs is
enormous!!! Some of them are beautiful, but others can be really
annoying because they bite. Take a look.
First of all, watch this video to learn the names of some bugs:
What is it?
Now let´s sing along: "Bug´n´roll"
Finally, a new episode ofSteve and Maggie: "Garden animals"
Butterflies
The life cycle of a butterfly is amazing!It is a metamorphosis from a little caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly. It goes through 4 stages:
egg- caterpillar- cocoon- butterfly
Storytime: "The very hungry caterpillar" by Eric Carle
