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Science Party Fun in Kindergarten

by Dennice Anders on October 25, 2018

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Kids, like adults, enjoy attention. Rewarding children for positive behavior with stickers and small rewards can be a great incentive to change negative behavior and encourage positive choices. In our Kindergarten class, we reward positive behavior with classroom parties. 

The party ideas are generated by the students. As the children make positive choices each day to listen, treat others kindly, and follow the rules, they are able to put tiny pom poms in a jar. When our pom-pom jar is full, we reward our class with a party and they vote on the theme. This month's reward was a spooktacular science party. We made exploding ghosts (mini volcanoes) and monster eye slime. We also made some ghost fluff that was very messy! We had a great time making and enjoying the experiments, and even learned a good life lesson: Sometimes experiments fail, as was the case with our Frankenworm experiment. We had fun celebrating our successes nonetheless.