The Honey Bees :: Week 25

The Honey Bees learned about  Volcanos this week, and they have been very focused. I am realizing that many of us believe a lot of things about volcanos from the movie Moana. I’m kind of laughing that I’m referencing a Disney movie in my weekly letter. Early in the week Professor Candace brought us a beaker to build a paper mache volcano around. I loved listening to their conversations about how volcanos were formed as we worked. Many of them enjoyed the sensation of the wet sticky glue while others knew that they did not want their hands in “that mess”.  We read a book about volcanos and learned the different kids of lava, the parts of a volcano, and how volcanos erupt. We identified the largest volcano in our solar system… Olympus Mons on the planet Mars. We could refer to our solar system model, and we know that this volcano is 16 miles high.

 

Candace did an amazingly informative eruption on Friday, and we invited the whole school. We talked about how scientists like to use models to investigate things that might be dangerous safely. There are many short videos of our volcano demonstration on Instagram.
Next week we are going to take Monday to catch up on a fossil project that is unfinished and work on our collaborative painting, and then we are going to start a unit on the human body.