Monday, April 11, 2011

Lawrence Hall of Science Field Trip

Friday I was able to go with Calissa's class to the Lawrence Hall of Science on her last field trip of the year. I had never been to the LHS before, so I was excited to go. I only had 4 girls to chaperone, so it was super easy! We got there 45 minutes before we could go inside to see the exhibits, so the kids climbed on the DNA and a giant whale. Here is Calissa on the DNA. Once inside we had an hour to look at exhibits before our class. Lila and Calissa are testing out roller coasters.
It was a beautiful day in Berkeley! You could see both bridges. It was just a little windy and cold. (Click on the picture for a bigger view)
My group.

Lila, Calissa, Jackie and Christine
Calissa and Lila outside.
Sarah and Calissa relaxing.
A self portrait ... not too bad.
They had this wind tunnel as we were heading downstairs for our class. There were lots of materials to make flying objects. Calissa just had a piece of tissue paper and got it to go all the way up to the ceiling (which was really tall).

After looking at the exhibits, our class got to go down to the basement and have a class on slime. They talked about solids, liquids and gasses and got to each make slime to take home. They also made some other slime that stayed there. It was a fun class and Calissa loves her blue/green slime!
After our class it was back outside for lunch and then back to school. Here is Calissa with her best friends, Kyrsten and Kaitlyn.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Calissa, did you get to see the real brain? I did when I was there. It was kind of yucky, but cool. Grandma R.