Calling ALL parents!!!
I get an email newsletter from education.com and enjoy reading the tips they offer for all learners, from preschool to high school. This particular newsletter I get contains tips/activities for learning at home. Since I stay involved with my own four children at home, this gives us ways to interact and learn WHILE having fun. These activities can also be included on your classroom newsletters to give parents at-home learning ideas. Our school system requires parent involvement opportunities...so, these activities are a GREAT way to meet this standard! Below is a small snippet of my most recent email newsletter. You can also visit education.com and click on the "Tips from Teachers" in the right column to subscribe.
3rd Grade
Cook Up Some Science!
by Julie Williams, a credentialed elementary, middle, and high school teacher from Palo Alto, California.
As winter days continue, remember that there’s lots of warm and cozy third grade learning available right in your kitchen! Third grade math includes extensive work on fractions and measurement. In science class, students transfer these skills into early experiments that show what happens when you blend ingredients.
Cooking helps all this science make sense, often with delicious results. While we may take it for granted that eggs, flour, butter and sugar can be mixed with baking soda, heated up, and eaten as cookies, the chemistry behind all that is really quite sophisticated. One batch of chocolate chip cookies, for example, may require just one teaspoon of baking soda. But try a little practice with the scientific thinking processes of prediction, cause and effect: in part of a batch, leave out that baking soda. It's the ingredient that makes cookies spread: see what happens without it! Click here for another of our favorite kitchen chemistry experiments: making marshmallows you can drop into your hot chocolate.
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