Adventures in First Grade Projects

We recently did an activity for science that demonstrated what happens to lava when it cools.  We used melted butter as the lava, so when it cooled it turned hard.  David wanted his lava to be colored & we don't have any red food coloring, so we made green lava... again.

I think I just need to get rid of all food coloring.  The plate of lava was sitting on the dining table when Rebekah found it.  Apparently the first thing she did after eating some of the green butter and getting it all over herself was to try to feed some of the green butter to Fluff... through the screen door.  Then there was a trail of green fingerprints on the white cabinets into the kitchen.  Of course, it was easier to find all the splotches of butter since they were green.

Today we did a pumpkin project.  Before cutting into the pumpkin, David estimated that there would be 12 seeds inside.

After a peek inside, he changed his answer to 100.

We sorted the seeds into 10's.  Then grouped the 10's into 100's just like we've been doing with the manipulatives in Math-U-See!

 Then David tallied up how many hundreds, tens and units we had...

Wow!  That was a lot of seeds!

After that, he designed a face for his pumpkin and I carved it for him.  I love this picture!