Everyday we try and incorporate science into our lesson plans. It has been so fun watching my class realize that practically everything around them can be science. Here we are learning about refraction and bending light as we do the bending pencil trick in water. I love watching them explore the world around them through science.
Since Halloween is right around the corner we used bats as a theme for one of our lesson plans. We read Stellaluna and several other batty books, we learned the difference between birds and mammals, and we also learned all about how bats find food. For science we played a game where we selected one child to be the bat. The bat was then blindfolded, the remaining students were to be insects and each given a rattle (we made our own and used math to count beans into baby food jars). The blindfolded bat would say “eeek” and the insects would respond with a short rattle. The bat repeated the “eeek” and the insects repeated the rattle until found by the bat. We all took turns being the bat and had so much fun.
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