This year I will be teaching a science class. The class will be held every other Tuesday. I will be teaching two classes-one for 9 years and older and another ages 5 to 8. Stink Bug, who is 7, will be with the older group because he is at the same level as the other kids in the older group and he would not benefit from participating with the younger group. While I have the older group a friend will be teaching writing to the younger group then we switch.
For the older kids we will rotate each month reporting on a famous scientist. This month was Stink Bug's turn, he reported on Benjamin Franklin. At group he read his report then I passed out books on Ben Franklin. Each child looked through the book and found something that interested them--they wrote the fact on a small piece of paper and glued it to our poster of Ben F. We then talked about clouds and the many different types there are. After we talked about them we started making our electroboards. The electroboard on one side has pictures of all the different types of clouds and on the other their definitions. We did not get them finished--and I had not planned on finishing them. I handed out their homework which was ten scientific terms, a cloud word search and an experiment to do at home. Then we switched!
For the younger group---we went over the poster the older kids made, talked about clouds, read a cloud book and wrote down five science words that we had talked about. For us at home those words are for handwriting practice/spelling words. After we went over the homework-a picture to color of Ben F., a weather graph to keep track of the weather and a cloud graph to keep track of the types of clouds they see. We then made a weather vane. We made them out of yogurt cups and it was really easy! The kids had a great time getting together with friends to learn and do projects with.
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