Father's Day Coffee

Today we celebrated our dads at the Pilot Father's Day Coffee.

Happy Father's Day!

Goodbye Butterflies!

We released our Painted Lady Butterflies today. Check out the video to watch us say goodbye!

Happy Birthday Matthew!

Today, we celebrated Matthew turning 6 years old!

He brought in some scrumptious caramel rice krispie treats for the class! He also shared some of his favorite memories from growing up.

Happy Birthday, Matthew!

The Painted Ladies have emerged!

Over the weekend, our Painted Lady Butterflies came out of their chrysalises!

We have 6 new butterflies and a name for each and every one of them: Sky, Noodles, Sweetie Pie, Orangey, Scaley and Picasso. One Painted Lady still remains in his chrysalis. We've named him Leo the Late Bloomer.

Check in with us later this week to watch the Painted Ladies released into the world!

Rain in a Jar

Emma is our Scientist for J Week! 

She showed us how with a jar, hot water and ice, we can make rain! She placed the ice on top of the jar filled with hot water.

And we watched as the heat from the water and mix with the cold air from the ice. When the hot and cold air met, condensation formed creating rain inside the jar!

Great job, Emma!

The Very Hungry Caterpillars

Our painted lady caterpillars are growing and changing into a chrysalis.

Scientist of the Week

Kiera is our Scientist of the Week!

Our experiment is called The Talking String for "T" week. We used a piece of string and a button to demonstrate how, when the string is wound up then pulled apart quickly, the button and string will vibrate together. 

The vibration makes it sound like the string is talking!

Great job, Kiera!

Caterpillars!!!

Caterpillars have arrived in Pilot B! We are watching them go through metamorphosis while learning about their stages of life. Check back to see our butterflies soon!

Pilot B Visits the Zoo

Pilot B had an amazing time visiting the Maryland Zoo.  The students loved finding their favorite zoo animals. 

Scientist of the Week

Sydney is our Scientist of the Week!

Our experiment was called Dancing Ice for "I" Week. The materials included vegetable oil, a glass jar and an ice cube.

We submerged the ice cube in the oil. The ice began to dance around as it melted!

Way to go, Sydney!

Happy Birthday Caden!

Today, we celebrated Caden's birthday!

He brought in some of his favorite things to share with the class

Happy Birthday, Caden!

Ninth Age Buddy

This week we made butterflies with our Ninth Age Buddies. We had so much fun!

Happy Birthday Adair!

Today, we celebrated Adair's birthday!

She brought in some of her favorite things to share. 

And showed us a few special pictures.

Happy Birthday, Adair!

Mystery Reader

Today we had two special Mystery Readers, mom and big sister. They read the books, A Birthday for Bear and The Great Pig Escape. What a way to celebrate a half birthday! Thank you for reading!

Scientist of the Week

Matthew is our Scientist of the Week! He demonstrated an experiment called Sticky Penny.

In this experiment, we used a penny, an eyedropper and some water to show how water collects on the surface of the coin. We predicted how many drops of water we could put onto the penny without the water overflowing.

Most of us predicted 5-10 drops. But we reached 21 drops before the water overflowed! We learned about molecules, cohesion and surface tension.

Way to go, Matthew!

Mystery Reader

Today we had a Mystery Reader come to read some dinosaur books.  She read Curious George and the Dinosaur Discovery and Danny and the Dinosaur.  Thank you so much for reading to us!

Pilot B Has Spirit!

We Have Spirit, Yes We Do!