My First Giveaway- A Winner!!

And the winner of my very first giveaway is....


I used random.org and it picked......

#19- Susan!!

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Yay!!! Congrats!

Thanks so much to everyone who entered! I loved hosting this giveaway and am thinking of doing another one soon!

Science Experiment: Why No Flood?

Today we did our first experiment from this great book!

Why No Flood?

You will need:

• a piece of cardboard or large index card
• glass of water

What to do:

Place the cardboard over the drinking glass which you have filled to the brim with water.

Make sure no air bubbles enter the glass as you hold the cardboard against it. Then turn the glass upside down over a sink or basin. Take away the hand holding the cardboard.

What happens:

The cardboard stays in place- and the water stays in the glass.

Why:

The pressure of the air outside the glass is greater than the pressure of the water inside. It is the air pressure that keeps the water in the glass.

My notes:

• I practiced this trick a few times during the kids naps so i knew what i was doing beforehand :) (that’s also why the cardboard is wet in some of the pics, not because the water was leaking from the cup)
• I somewhat ‘slid’ the cardboard over the cup to let less air in than if i had just laid it over the top.
• When explaining this trick to connor and bri (mostly connor), i focused on explaining about the air- that because there was no air, the cup was suctioned to the cardboard. But once air got inside, the cup let go.
• This trick worked almost everytime. However depending on how much air slipped in, some times the cup lasted longer than other times. So make sure you try this experiment over a sink as the cup will drop at some point and water will splash out! Connor got a kick out of this.

Let me know if you try this out! It was fun and easy :)

Brianna’s Tot School: Noah’s Ark

 

Noah’s Ark:

We had a rainbow themed lunch. She was able to find all of the colors i named. Except yellow, because bananas are more of a white.

We made animal cracker arks for stART.

We all played with Connor’s Noah’s Ark toy.

Tot Trays/Misc:

She enjoys her new Barbie magna doodle so much! She plays with it on and off all day, everyday!

We went to our local children’s museum and checked out the new Lego Castle exhibit!

Brianna colored shape worksheet from our 3,2,1, learn book and then found the smallest shape from each set.

She stamped with this cute set of stamps from the dollar section at Target.

She played with Connor’s big blocks.

And we did a science experiment that i will be posting about next week.

Brianna’s favorite book to read this past week was Bunny’s Noisy Book, by Margaret Wise Brown. I love this adorable book!

Come check out more tot school posts over at 1+1+1=1!

Connor’s Preschool: Noah’s Ark and Rr

Noah’s Ark:

We made animal cracker arks for stART.

And made a Noah’s Ark wheel from our Bible Crafts book.

He worked on Noah’s Ark sequencing cards from DLTK. He did well with this.

He found the matching animals.

We did a science experiment called Why No Flood? I will be posting about this experiment next week, so stay posted for all the details! It was a good one :)

And he played with this Noah’s ark toy. I didnt know Buzz Lightyear was part of Noah’s family did you?

Rr is for Rainbow!

This r is for rainbow paper is from Making Learning Fun.

We had a rainbow lunch!

This R is from his 3,2,1 book.

Tot Trays/Misc:

We visited our local children’s museum and checked out the new Lego Castle exhibit.

We made shapes from popsicle sticks. I saw this idea here.

He built towers with his big blocks,

so he could knock them down of course :)

He played with a Goodnight Moon puzzle i found at Goodwill.

And he worked on some pages in his Learn Everyday Preschool book.

Connor’s favorite book to read this week was I Wish That I Had Duck Feet! By Leo LeSieg. (A Dr. Seuss book)

That was it for our week! If you want, head on over and check out my giveaway :)

stART- Noah’s Ark

This week we read Noah’s Ark: Words from the book of Genesis. Illustrated by Jane Ray.

And we made simple animal cracker arks.

I printed and cut out this ark template and let the kids color it.

I then cut it out and they glued it to construction paper. Then they glued on animal crackers, with liquid glue.

Brianna’s finished ark:

Connors ark after i asked him if he wanted to draw some clouds. I was shocked when he said yes:

Head on over to A Mommy’s Adventures to see more stories+art.

Oh and come check out my giveaway!