Science at Early Childhood Education:

Early Childhood Ed alumna brings her Van Corlaer first graders to Career & Tech for special lessons
Career & Tech Early Childhood Education alumna and Van Corlaer Elementary School First Grade Teacher Kim Bushey (pictured above) brought her class to campus in March to work on science units. The children learned about the interaction of solids, liquids and gase from current Early Childhood Education students in Ms. Jennings' room and through baking with Culinary Arts & Hospitality Technology students

Early Childhood Education senior Caitlin Folk (Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk) and teacher Ms. Jennings share a story A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni with Ms. Bushey's first graders. The story related to colors, with the students asking about how they are mixed and created.

Scotia-Glenville and Early Childhood Education senior Michelle Potter supervises the first graders, who are tie-dying coffee filters using water-based markers and warm water. The activity taught absorption and color mixing.

Early Childhood Education alumna and first grade teacher Kim Bushey shares a story after lunch in Ms. Jennings' room.

Ms. Bushey and Van Corlaer first grade students work on science lessons that used ice cube painting to teach solid to liquid, temperature change and color mixing. The students used powdered tempera paint, warm water and ice cubes with handles. They observed the ice cubes changing to liquid, which made the powdered paint also turn from solid to liquid. Each child also observed colors mixing on paper.

Circle time is when Early Childhood Education students and Ms. Bushey's first grade class introduced themselves and then talked about weather conditions, the calendar and plans for the day's activities. Children also were introduced to "insta-snow" and observed crystals changing into flakes of sodium polyacrylate, which also felt cold. Ms. Jennings is at right.

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