Science All Around Us

Every month Mother Goose Time asks their blog ambassadors to write about a specific focus topic.  This month's topic is science all around us.  We spent the month learning about the ocean and science was incorporated in every single lesson.  Every day I start by asking "what is the weather today?"  The girls both will run to the window and look outside and observe the weather.  Addie will also make a prediction about what she thinks the weather will be the following day, and then we check and see if she was right.  They're completing steps of the scientific method without even realizing it, and that's before we've even begun any of the lessons.  This month we talked about sea animals and what makes them mammals, reptiles or fish (we didn't learn about birds or amphibians this month). We also talked learned about conservation, which was great since Earth Day was also this month.  Of course the girls don't know what conservation is, they just know it was fun jumping around the room without touching coral. They also won't be able to tell you what density means, but they can tell you the ocean is made of saltwater, which makes things float easier.  Preschoolers learn about science by asking questions relevant to what they are seeing around them.  They learn by observing what is their environment.  Just because they aren't learning the proper scientific terms, doesn't mean they aren't learning key concepts.  Mother Goose Time makes learning about science fun for kids by incorporating hands on activities and experiments and getting the that gets kids actively involved. 

watching an ocean documentary