Reading List

Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy
Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren
Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy
Junie B. Jones and That Meanie Jim's Birthday
Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business
Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruit Cake
Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy
The Cat in the Hat
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Hop on Pop
Moo Baa La La La

Math

This year we did a lot of hands on math like legos, puzzles and other manipulatives as well as word problems and verbal quizzes.
An Example

Here Cora is adding by ten and finding patterns in adding.

Mad Science

Each class is designed for age appropriateness and all MAD scientists will
participate in hands on experiments in small groups, individually, and as lab
assistants to the MAD Science instructor in dynamic, interactive demonstrations.
Students will always be making something they will get to take home. Take-home
cards each class also indicate to parents “what we learned” and introduces “lets try this at home” activities to reinforce what was presented in the “lab”. This semester young scientists will be “doing” a mix of some cool new and updated hands-on activities. Class titles are as follows:

• Under Pressure - Join Bernoulli & Newton as we explore aerodynamics and the properties of air... under pressure. Use a vortex generator to create air pockets with a punch, and levitate ping-pong balls in defiance of gravity!
• Che-mystery - Eliminate the mystery in chemistry! Explore one of the most exciting and fundamental sciences as you grow a crazy crystal garden and make your own “chemical” soda pop!
• ”Current” Events - Take a tour on the electron freeway! Conductors, insulators, transistors, and other elements in the world of circuit electricity introduce themselves to you via the tingle in your fingertips and the twinkle in your eye…
• “Fun”- damental Forces - Gravity... Inertia... Centripetal force... who could ever imagine that an intro to physics could be so much fun? Experience these awesome forces for ourselves and build some cool devices to watch them at work!
• Wacky Waves - Create your own multidensity wave bottles while learning about water, waves and the environment. Simulate the effects of an ocean oil spill and develop creative techniques to clean it up!
• Science of Magic - Magic? No… It's science! You'll learn the secrets behind famous magic that you can recreate for yourself! Mother nature has some tricks of her own, and we'd like to show you what's up her sleeve!
• Fantastic Fliers - The Wright Brothers would be proud as we follow in their footsteps and learn the fundamental principles of flight. Build a “football” glider, control surfaces and your very own loop-flying stunt plane. You'll be a Top Gun after this class!
• Super Structures - Discover the strengths of triangles, cylinders and arches and how make for sturdy homes and skyscrapers! Use teamwork to build your own super structures as well as an earthquake-proof building!

Spring Into Art

Class Mural

This SpRiNg Art class will have all new lessons for the young artist. A variety of

art media will be used including tempera paint and watercolor paint, pastel, clay, and printmaking. Students will make papier mache bowls to be painted as they so desire. They will also make a 3-D diorama of some of Monet's paintings. Other artists that the class will look at will be Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, and Cassatt. The class will finish out the semester working together on a mural. This will be on display for all to see at the final pot-luck at the end of the semester. Each student will be able to take home a portion of the mural.

Zoology

An introduction to the Animal and Microbial Kingdoms, from single‐celled life
forms to the Primates and many of the animal groups in between. All lessons include hands‐on, interactive time. A "Science/Nature" journal will be kept, and we always meet a living or preserved specimen to examine, sketch and/or photograph. Mr. Doug brings in a different animal friend of his to each class. The animals are not necessarily related to the class topic of the day.

Wildlife Ecology

Here Cora holds a live
Conch that was later released.

This hands-on, science-based class is designed for children with a strong interest in nature and will focus on the ecology of Florida’s wildlife and wild lands. Lessons include biodiversity, food chains and webs, predators and prey, fire ecology, habitat fragmentation, non-native species, and conservation. Facilitated by wildlife biologist and environmental educator George L. Heinrich, students will practice nature detective skills such as identifying bio-artifacts - found natural objects, reading animal tracks, and determining what a species has been eating by examining its scat. This class includes an optional field trip to Fossil Fest 2013 in Tampa (Saturday, 23 March; in lieu of previous Thursday’s class). Parents may need to assist with weekly homework assignments and are always welcome in the classroom.

Here we examined a
Lightning Whelk Egg Casing

Ecology Homework
Ecology Homework

Fossil Fest

Science Birthday

Hands on Planet Earth Birthday Party with Doug Scull