Bubbles!

Bubbles, bubbles everywhere! Today was filled with bubbles! Through our scientific play with bubbles we learned that adding soap to water weakens the pull of the surface tension and makes the surface of the water much stretchier. It spreads out enough for you to blow air inside-it's a bit like blowing up balloons. A bubble will burst when it's film gets so thin it can no longer contain the air inside. The colors we see depend on the thickness of the bubble's skin. Blue-green is the thickest, followed by blue(thinner), magenta(even thinner), and yellow-white(very thin). When the film appears black(or transparent), it is at it's very thinnest and is about to pop. You can guess the longevity of a bubble by observing its color. At that point, the bubble will be one millionth of an inch thick. We observed bubbles, measured bubbles, compared bubble solutions, made bubble blowers, and had lots of bubbly fun!!

Creativity

A large part of what we do has to do with being critical and creative thinkers. We focus on the characteristics of different types of critical and creative thinking: fluency, flexibility, elaboration, originality, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, risk taking, complexity, curiosity, and imagination. Today we focused on three of these characteristics: Flexibility results in many different kinds of ideas. The purpose of flexible thinking is to generate and promote responses that deviate from normal thought patterns. Elaboration is the creative thinking behavior that results in adding to or embellishing an idea. It is the ability to add details, fill in the gaps, build a group of related ideas and expand ideas. Originality is the creative thinking behavior that produces new or novel responses. Originality is often the by product of other creative thinking behavior. Most of all today we discussed how creativity can simply mean looking at the ordinary and seeing the extraordinary.

Top 40!

Wow! I am so proud of everbody and what a fantastic job they did in our 3 performances of our Top 40 Musical! The show was outstanding and I was amazed by our fabulous performers. I did not get the chance to take many pictures so I would love to get pictures sent to me so that I can out them together for a slide show. Stay tuned for more about the musical...

Musical is Coming Soon!

Our gifted musical is fast approaching! Please mark your calendars...Evening performance January 22nd 7:00pm and morning performances January 23rd K-2 9:30am and 3-5 10:30am. Please join us for some "Top 40" tunes!

K/1 Goes Green!

Wordle - k/1 goes green (click on the link to see our "word cloud")

Our new Book of the Month When Santa Turned Green by Victoria Perla inspired us to brainstorm ways that we could help save the planet. The author wrote this book to teach her own children about global warming in a non-scary way. She wanted to show them that they could make a big impact just by making lots of little changes. Each of us made our own list of ways that we could help and then we used Wordle to create a word cloud. As you can tell the biggest thing we can do is to recycle! Check out this list off more ways you can "go green."

It Looked Like Spilt Milk...