After art class we get ready to hunt for science, this week we are looking for worms in their natural habitat.
Sara is aided in her quest to prepare a happy home for our guests.
We work in teams to find the best places to look for our treasures.
Night worms... Where do you think they'll be? A bright place or a dark place? Emma is the first one to find a worm. She also proves to a couple of gentlemen that girls can, and will, pick up crawlers. As if we didn't prove that with the gastropods!
Well... some of us would rather wear protection!
Students create experiments following the scientific method. Hypothesis: Slugs will win a race because they don't have a shell to carry. Theory: After racing more than thirty gastropods, we think small skinny slugs are faster than big slugs because they have less weight to move, and much faster than snails for the same reason. They also might be a little younger: as Johnmorgan stated, "kindergartener's can ran faster than Mrs. Kurkinen", thankfully they didn't comment of my weight!
The students also constructed tracks to see which gastropod could maneuver through various obstacles. Some of us were very frustrated on the snails refusal to stay on the track.
And so, what did we learn? Harper pretty much sums it up:
"This is a small snail. [And it] is slow!"
Kindergarten is problem solving measurement. After measuring with a variety of tools, each group follows a map and hidden clues to measure distances. At their disposal, one yard stick, five to six kindergarteners, and an unending supply of yarn. Though their final figures differ, most students decide to use bodies to help mark the yards between points on the map. 
After art class we get ready to hunt for science, this week we are looking for worms in their natural habitat.
Sara is aided in her quest to prepare a happy home for our guests.
We work in teams to find the best places to look for our treasures. Night worms... Where do you think they'll be? A bright place or a dark place? Emma is the first one to find a worm. She also proves to a couple of gentlemen that girls can, and will, pick up crawlers. As if we didn't prove that with the gastropods!
Well... some of us would rather wear protection!
Students create experiments following the scientific method. Hypothesis: Slugs will win a race because they don't have a shell to carry. Theory: After racing more than thirty gastropods, we think small skinny slugs are faster than big slugs because they have less weight to move, and much faster than snails for the same reason. They also might be a little younger: as Johnmorgan stated, "kindergartener's can ran faster than Mrs. Kurkinen", thankfully they didn't comment of my weight!
And so, what did we learn? Harper pretty much sums it up: 
As summer approaches and the weather finally lets us emerge from our dwellings, kindergarten has embarked on our final science unit. As seen during the arts fair, we have completed our marine education with some rather impressive underwater scenes. After a half an hour in the green space we successfully introduced the current guests into our classroom, if any of you like to touch the "foot-stomachs" or mollusks, now abiding in our terrarium, please come by around 1pm each day so I don't have to! Soon we will have worms and pill bugs in our room as well!
We have also had the chance to watch the life cycle of tadpoles unfold. Near the bottom of this photograph you can clearly see the eggsac. The tadpole are now over a half inch in length. 
As were our tortillas...
And, of course, the hot chocolate!
The Rope Tricks were the favorite as well!
Our special friends were in for it when they entered Room Thirty-One. We put them right to work after only a few minutes touring the classroom. Students worked with their special friend to complete a Venn Diagram of school experiences. 
