Our Ears
Science today was a blast! I was not looking forward to teaching about the parts of the ear, but so far it has been pretty fun. We went to the Children's University website and went through an interactive ear tour. After that we went through it a second time but while molding the parts out of clay as we went to help us remember. I didn't get pictures of every part, such as the pinna (the formed the clay into bowl shapes to "catch" the sound like our ears do), but here are some:
The focus wasn't on having accurate representations. It was about remembering the names of the different parts and the order they come in, and the clay certainly seems to have helped!
Maraca Time
Unfortunately could not find plastic eggs in time since it is more Christmas versus Easter right now, but oh well. I found some tiny dip containers at the dollar store, some army duct tape that the kids loved and we taped up some maracas. The kids loved them, although they weren't as pretty as the one from the blog Dana Made It.