What an exciting week!
This week in the purple room we learned and experimented with different solids, liquids and gases.
On Monday our friends learned that a solid is firm and stable like a chair, table and many other things. A liquid is a fluid that conforms to its container like water and juices. Gas is an air like fluid that expands freely to fill any space like air and carbon dioxide (and of course a fart). After learning about solid, liquid and gas it was time to wash hands, we used liquid soap, liquid water and a solid paper towel.
On Tuesday and Wednesday we experimented with balloons. Morah D filled one balloon with water, one with air and one was solid ice. Our friends weighed the ice balloons, water balloons, and air balloons to see which weighed more. Then we bounced the balloons to see which one bounced more, after all the bouncing we made little holes so we can feel the air, water and ice.
On Thursday our green room friends joined us to experiment with dry ice. Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide, that people and animals breathe out and plants breathe in. We put coins into the dry ice and saw them dancing and making noises until the coins froze, then we added dry ice to hot water we heard it boiling and we saw steam clouds coming out. Our next experiment was hot water, bubbles solution and dry ice. Bubbles were popping out of the bowl, our friends used their fingers to pop the bubbles and steam popped from within the bubbles.
In our outdoor classroom the purple room was very interested in bugs and building a house for the beetles, the beetle house was full of different rooms, hiding place and even a small river with a boat so they don’t drown.

Share this week was about the letter O
Nosson brought in his Omer chart
Ben brought in an octopus
Nechama brought in an owl and an orange
Shimmy brought in oats for everyone

See you next week!
Morah D