Fall…when every leaf is a flower.
(Author Unknown)

Love these Maple trees around campus!

First graders were chemists in lab.  Making slime is such a fun way to show how states of matter can change!  We mixed two liquids (PVA and a cross-linker solution) and created a solid.  The molecules link together and create a polymer (a long chain of molecules).

Last May, we hatched three ducklings in the Science Lab (Uno, Zip, and Percy).  They live on the retention pond behind the school.  They have imprinted on me, so watch what happens when I call them to eat.  Click below.

Calling Ducks

What a beautiful sunrise this morning!

Second grade botanists planted these soup beans.  They are winding in and out of the blinds searching for some sunshine.

Our sweet potato plants are growing well too!

 Look at these bean plants wind their way through the maze.

I am frequently referring to atoms during my science lessons and I wanted a model to use in my lab. I decided to make one!  This is a helium atom.  (Note:  This is not to scale and the protons, electrons, and neutrons are not these colors.)

Many of my first grade students thought that apples turned brown because they were dirty.  We learned that oxidation occurs when the flesh of the apple is exposed to oxygen.  Rust is also oxidation.  We tried to prevent oxidation using a variety of liquids.  We had a control apple that we didn’t submerge in a liquid.

We took this experiment through the scientific process.  First grade students completed their first lab reports.