how do we turn on the light?????

Our house is well underway, but there is one problem........ it is too dark inside!

We started to think about how we could get some light in there, and the children wanted a light bulb. 

When we gave them the light bulb, they said they needed a battery......So...here they are!  But how do we make the light bulb turn on???  First thing we need to do is "make buttons to turn the lights on".  We each got a paper to draw what kind of button we needed....Some of us thought we needed square buttons, and some of us thought we needed rectangle buttons.  The children helped each other spell the name of the shape they drew.  We put them all on the table to pick the buttons ......and we put a blue button and a red button in the house!"Now you just need to "put the battery and the light together to make them turn on"Well the big battery didn't work, so now "we need a small battery"!  The small battery didn't help, so we thought, "hot gluing the small battery and the light together will make them work!" 

Hmmmmmmmm that didn't work either! 

Don't you just love our scientific thinkers?  They are doing such a great job of trying out different approaches to see how to make the light bulb work!  (little do they know the teachers have a science experiment to make it work just waiting for them in the classroom!)  Timing is everything with the children, we will do the experiment when the time is right to help the children learn and discover all they can while they are working on this project.  Stay tuned to see what other hypotheses our little geniuses come up with ;0)