Rocks, Sand, and Silt

Our new Science unit has us exploring lots of rocks!  My kiddos have been sorting them, looking at them with magnifying glasses, washing them, and comparing and contrasting them.  I've never seen so many littles be so excited about a rock!

They have been doing most of the work all on their own.  I have quite the little observers!

Now, if we could only get over the tattling about little things....

We started everything off by creating a KWL chart.

They had a pretty good idea about rocks (or at least they thought they did) :-) but man does silt have them stumped!  Also in this picture is their first observations about the three rocks they looked at.

 Look at this!!! 

So exciting!

They loved this!  All of this is part of a FOSS kit so I can't take credit for any of these genius ideas.  They were pretty amazed at how the rocks look bigger under water and you can make them look HUGE with your magnifying glass. :-)

They worked together, were excited, and were great little investigators!

I had them write their observations on the board and we made a class anchor chart when we got everything cleaned up.

We did a butterfly activity today as well so check back tomorrow to see some of their work!  Have a great Thursday night...tomorrow's Friday!!