Kindergarten States of Matter
Kindergarten students at Laburnum Elementary have been learning that water occurs in different phases (SOL K.5a): solid, liquid, and gas. Ms. Daniels has been teaching her class that other types of matter occur in different phases as well. So today her students practiced sorting matter into solids, liquids, and gases using ABCYa!Paint. This would be a great activity for Pixie, due to the abundance of stickers, however, as I mentioned before, we are having problems with Pixie showing up when kindergarten students log in with their generic login. ABCYa!Paint has enough stickers and stamps to provide a couple of examples for each phase of matter, so it worked fine for this activity. First the students drew two lines down the paper, making three groups and wrote an S, L, and G in each one for solid, liquid, and gas. Then they used stickers and stamps to put examples in each category. For gas we used the bubbles and balloons, for liquids we used the different paint splats, and most of the other images were solids. When they were finished, we saved their pictures and uploaded them to CoMemories so everyone could see them. You can see a few examples here.