In case I haven’t told you all yet, we are in the midst of Summer Reading sign-ups. What does that mean you may ask? It means that we are SUPER busy at the library. And if you come to the library and sign up for the Summer Library Program you can earn some pretty cool…
For the STEM science experiment at story time for the Y and Z week I wanted to do something with the word “zoom!” So basically I got an inclined plane (a large triangle that is part of our library furniture). Then I got some balls and had the kids put them at the top of…
There is one major science thing that I think of when I think of the letter “X”…X-Rays! Thankfully we had some x-rays left over from our teen part of the summer reading program last year. Thankfully I nabbed them before the teens threw them all away. The kids could look at the animal x-rays and…
For last week’s science experiment we learned about weight. We had some scales and some shape bean bags that I got out. Then the kids would put the different bean bags in the different sides of the scales and see which bean bags weighed more or less. I wish I had more scales and more…
For last week’s story time science experiment I wanted to do something with vinegar…since one of the letters was “V” this week. So I got some scientific looking test tubes and put some oil and some vinegar in them. Then we shook them up… And then watched them go back to oil being on top…
For the “T” story time last week I really wanted to do one particular science experiment. It was to make a tornado in two 2 liter soda pop bottles. I had done this experiment as a child, and I loved doing it. Basically I got some tornado tubes from an online store and put them…
For the science experiment at story time last week I wanted to talk about wind and air…so I used streamers! I cut up some streamers and had some craft sticks available. The kiddos just taped a streamer to a craft stick. Then we talked about why the streamers would do crazy things when we waved…
For the science experiment this week I had the kiddos do a sink or float activity. Basically I had our two water tables. Then I had a bucket of balls and a bucket of rocks. The kids had to dump the things in and see what would sink and what would float. And then we…
So for the science experiment this week I really wanted to mix colors. Mostly because I knew that red and yellow water would make orange water. So I got out the eye droppers (and talked about how using them would help develop good muscle skills that would be beneficial when learning how to write) and…
For the science experiment this last week I wanted to do something to do with the word “noise”. I decided to pull out the musical instruments. Then I turned on some music and we shook the musical instruments in time with the rhythm and beat of the music. The kids played with the musical instruments…