WATER
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From Stormie:
Although
I'm posting ideas below as often as I can, my very favorite "Water Fun"
activities have been reserved for my "SUMMER THINGS"
booklet (see the "Stormie's Stuff for Teachers" section
of my website).
Sprinkler Play: Send a note home for children to wear their bathing suits (or everyday shorts/tops) to camp and bring a towel with their name on it. Hook up a sprinkler and allow them to run through it as they please throughout the morning.
Paper
Streamers: Kathi, in Maryland (E-mail: Kathi19307@aol.com) shares this:
Hang an old white sheet on a fence and tape paper streamers to it. Then
let the kids spray the sheet with water. Watch the colors come off the streamers
and run onto the sheet. Once the sheet dries, remove the streamers and viola!
You have the perfect backdrop for a performance for the parents.
Suzanne
K from New Jersey shares these fun experiments:
*Rolling
Balls of Water: Turn a cookie sheet over into a slight incline, tape wax paper
to it, then have children drip water onto it with droppers. After they play
with the rolling balls of water for a while, I add soap. Of course, there
are several questions raised to them before, during, and after experimenting.
Usually there are two children to one cookie sheet (so I borrow extra ones).
*Whales
and How They Eat (I got this from Bill Nye, the Science Guy): Whales
have baleen (whalebone) that they use to "filter" out krill (shrimp-like crustaceans
used as food). Give each child a pie tin. They fill it 1/2 full with water.
They then sprinkle pepper in the water. Now the fun: Give each child a toothbrush.
Which way is easier to pick up the pepper, using your fingers or the toothbrush?
(Children try to "filter" out the pepper with their fingers, then with the toothbrush).
I write a little blurb about the experiment and post children's remarks and explanations.
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