The preschool students started an experiment to try sprouting and growing beans. Click here to see the start of the project. 

One week later we noticed that the beans had sprouted and were growing roots and opening up.

So we decided to plant these sprouts in dirt cups and see the further growth. Stay tuned for updates on the bean growth.

Items needed:

One raw egg

One glass or jar, with lid or aluminum foil to cover

Vinegar

Add the egg in the jar. Pour in vinegar to cover the egg. Place lid or aluminum foil on top of jar. Let sit for 2 days. After 2 days replace the vinegar with fresh vinegar. Let sit for one week. Observe.

We did this experiment in the past. Click here to read about it.  Science is always fun to do experiments over and over again to compare results.

During our Mr. Yuk theme week on learning about household poisons and dangerous items, the preschool students investigated the results of adding baking soda to vinegar.

We added a spoonful of baking soda to a small cup. Then we poured about a tablespoon of vinegar in the cup. The bubbles fizzed up to the top of the cup and spilled over. The cup was sitting on a plate to avoid a big mess on the floor.

No, I’m not talking about eating Earth-friendly foods. I’m talking about the Leprechaun getting ahold of the preschool students’ lunches.

The vegetable for the day was broccoli. And the Leprechaun turned the ordinary white milk to green. The teaching moments never stop in the early childhood world.

To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in the preschool classroom, the students mixed paints to make green. They discovered that blue paint + yellow paint makes green paint.

This is a great activity for learning the color wheel and seeing what colors develop from mixing two colors together.

Items needed: clear glass or jar, Club soda, raisins.

Pour about a half of the jar full of Club soda. Drop in a few raisins (4-5). Watch to see the raisins sink to the bottom of the liquid and (hopefully) go back up to the top of the soda. The raisins in this experiment went up and down a few times.

Results may vary.