Creative Minds

Kid’s Corner

{Week 2: Science/Discovery}

Theme: Snow Days          Color: White

Note: Please visit the link Kid’s Corner to learn how easy it is to complete our lessons with your child! Our Kid’s Corner lessons are guaranteed to have you and your child learning together, growing together, and having fun together.  Enjoy!

Daily Opener:  

1. Prayer {Say a prayer with your child}
2. Calendar {Click on the link to learn how to use the calendar} 
3. ABC / 123 Song {Sing the ABC’s with your child & sing numbers 1-10 with your child}    

  Activity:  Lava Lamp (Found in the Family Fun Magazine)  {Lesson By Annie}                                

Description:  Children will discover the ingredients put together to make a beautiful Lava Lamp. 

Materials:

- Empty Water Bottle with lids (one per child)

-Food Coloring

-Vegetable Oil

-Alka Seltzer

Directions:

1.     Using the water bottle, fill the bottle a little more than half way with oil.

2.     Then fill the rest of the water bottle with water, leave about 2 inches at the top.

3.     With the child, slowly count out ten drops of food coloring (color of your choice) with your child.

4.     Take one alka seltzer and break it into four pieces, one whole seltzer per bottle.

5.     Add one piece of alka seltzer to the bottle at a time, and watch the magic begin. * *Don’t add more than one at a time, for the clarity will not be clear, wait to add additional pieces once the previous one has dissolved. 

6.      When all pieces are finished, screw on lid and save for future lava fun!

Learning Opportunities:

1.     Talk to your child about how water and lava don’t mix, therefore it naturally separates from each other.

2.     What do we use vegetable oil for in our everyday life? Food Coloring?

Read Aloud:

LAVA {By Annie Wood}

Acrostic Poem

Long, beautiful, hot glowing lava.

All around the explosive mountain.

Vivacious, beautiful, hot, glowing lava.

All around the explosive mountain.

     Daily Craft: Activity Jar {Click on the link to learn about using the activity jar} Recommended participating in the Activity Jar on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 

     Congratulations: You and your child finished the lesson for the day! What did you think about the lesson today, and what did your child learn?  We’d love to hear your thoughts!           

*   Stallone Tested and Approved: {We are so lucky to have Stallone, Annie’s son, test out all of our lessons that we create for you.  We want the lessons to be enjoyable for children, so after each lesson we will post how Stallone did with the lesson in italics under the title, 

S    Stallone Tested and Approved}:

   

      This was such a fun activity! Thank you Family Fun Magazine! Stallone loved making the Lava Lamp! He was so intrigued as he drop the tablets into the bottle, he kept saying 

b"bubbles, bubbles!" I look forward doing this project in the future again!

Materials, I substituted Denture Cleaning Tablets instead of Alka Seltzer

{I used Denture Tablets to clean my retainers :) }

Oil

Water & Oil

After including the food coloring, it was time to start dropping the tablets!

Wowwww!

Little bubbles filled the bottle, if I would of used Alka Seltzer the bubbles would of been bigger, but this still worked out nicely!