Science - Solar System and Stars

Using these resources-
Magic School Bus Lost in Space
Magic School Bus Sees Stars
Book- Fancy Nancy sees Stars

The Berenstain Bears on the Moon

Read about the Solar System
Look at our books on Space and Stars (many on our book cases, just find a couple)

Activities:
Make planets from Lego and Game
Make solar System to hang up in house (idea for scale) plus lots of other ways to make them
Chalk draw the planets
Make star cookies
Star shape cut outs to hang on windows
Star Gaze one night
Great Clickable link that takes you to a kid friendly explaining page for each planet
Great Information here
Kids Astrononmy
Clickable with lots of info but not for small kids
Solar System Cards and little work book
Circular diagram

Very informative Star information for down under
List of SH constellations
Star wheel to cut out
Constellations 
Seasonal SH stars
Southern Hemisphere Constellations online looking at the sky
Common stars SH and NH

You Tube:
solar System song
For Kindy age
Interesting Facts
Facts
Another
Planets and solar system
Cool Craft 

Blessings,
 

Science 3 - Rainbows

Next Up in our Science study is Rainbows
The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow
Rainbow Fish
Rainbow Fish to the Rescue
The Rainbow Goblins
Rainbow Magic

Play with our wooden rainbow and coloured wooden puzzles

Make a cloud from a paperplate and hang crepe paper streamers down to represent the rainbow colours
Make a salt dough rainbow
Make a paper rainbow 
Make a felt rainbow from felt one on top of the other
circle Rainbow template
Rainbow fish colouring page
Rainbow colouring page

Paint paddle pop sticks into rainbow shapes

Use coloured pipecleaners and match the beads to it to form a rainbow
sort buttons into rainbow colours

Hoop Rainbow
Rainbow in a Jar- three ingredients, jar, salt and coloured chalk
Make Pavement Chalk

Make Rainbow Crayons (here is a guide if you don't know how)

FOOD:
Rainbow Pudding Pops
Make a Rainbow cake (use this as a guide perhaps)

you tube ideas-
Sing a rainbow Song
How do rainbows form
Another
How is a rainbow formed
Does it need rain and sun?

Blessings,
 

Science 2- Volcanoes

Third week of Science- VOLCANOES

The Magic School Bus Blows it's Top
Magic School Bus Youtube
Types of volcano
diagram
image in colour diagram
Volcano info
volcanic information
National geographic volcano for kids

Island volcanic growth

videos
volcano 1
volcano lava
volcano eruption
10 amazing facts a bout volcano
Mt Helens Eruption
Mount Etna eruption
deep ocean eruption

Activities-
make a volcano like we do in sandpit
menthos volcano eruption

colouring page
mini book

Blessings,
 

Science 1- Bees

We will be doing  quick Science based projects each week or two. Just following our interests and using mostly any internet based resources and books we have at home or can be borrowed easily form the library

The first one is bees and we covered this today.
We read aloud and watched these interesting youtube sessions as well as listen to the cute song at the end.

Books: Inside a Beehive (Magic Schoolbus Series)
Honey in a Hive - Anne Rockwell
How do Bees make Honey- Usborne

Youtube resources_
Magic School Bus- Inside a Bee Hive a favourite with the children always
Honey Bee Lifecycle
A look inside a Beehive
How do bees make Honey
Extracting Honey by Hand
Cleaning Melting and Filtering Beeswax
Extracting Honey on the Cheap
Cutting and straining honey

Information-
Beeright Facts
Beeright videos

Honey Bee Song Youtube the kids loved this one

And the Bee Movie. Not accurate in lots of ways but fun to watch.

Activities: make a fleece bee and catch and observe bees

Blessings,