The parent teachers have really been pulling out all the stops this month and today’s was no exception: Isa’s mom, Liz!  Isa and Liz came to school today prepared to thoroughly celebrate the letter C.  They donated carrots for snack and brought a special science project that involves celery, carrots, and colored water!

During group project, Liz used food coloring to tint a few cups of water.  For the first experiment, she sliced a piece of celery up the middle to form two legs at the bottom, then placed each leg into a cup with a different color of water.  She also placed several young stalks of celery into individual cups with other colors of water.  If all goes according to plan, the water will travel up the stalks and change the color of the celery!  We are hoping to see the first stalk, which uses two different colors, demonstrate how colors mix to form other colors.  We’ll have to wait and see what happens!

Isa’s grandmother, Oma, and her Aunt Petra are visiting from Germany, and they paid a special visit to Circle Time and taught us the days of the week in German.  This is another example of how the co-op component helps integrate children’s home experiences into the classroom.  German is a special part of Isa’s family life and now she gets to share it with us!