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Division 10 has been learning to tell time.  We know that being able to tell time is an important life skill.  We learned that there is 24 hours in a day and 60 minutes in each hour.  We also know that the short hand tells us the hour and the longer hand tells us the minutes.  We were surprised that the hour hand moves forward as the minutes pass.  This made it tricky for us to tell the time.  Now that we can read the clock, when you say, “wait just a minute” we will be timing you.[metaslider id=2490]

Division 10 wondered what makes day and night.  We learned that every day the Earth makes one turn on its axis.  The sun shines on the Earth as it spins.  But sunlight shines only on the half of the Earth facing the sun.  That half has day.  The other half is dark.  That half has night.  As the Earth spins we move from day, to night, to day, to night over and over again.  We used a flashlight and a globe to show what we know.

Did you know that if the sun was hollow, you could fit one million Earths inside.

Division 10 read Kevin Henkes book “Kitten’s First Full Moon”.  The kitten in the story thought the full moon was a bowl of milk and kept trying to get to it.  We know that the moon is not made of milk or cheese. 

We did this science experiment to see the chemical reaction that occurs when you mix milk, food coloring and detergent. 

Supplies:Steps:

Fill the pie tin with enough milk to completely cover the bottom.

Add different colors of food coloring to the center of the pie plate.

Dip a Q-Tip in dishwashing detergent and then touch the Q-Tip to the center of the pie plate,  Watch what happens.

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Here’s Why:

Milk has vitamins, minerals, protein and fat.  Mixing detergent with milk causes a chemical reaction to occur.  The soap molecules race around the milk trying to catch up with the fat molecules.

Try it at home.