What Can You See?

Last week E & B wanted to know if we could build something so we can look out our window. 

"Maybe we can make a telescope!"

B picked up a small tube and peeked inside. He handed it to E so he could take a look too.

"We need like a smaller one to go inside and then a smaller one to go in that one too."

E & B went around the room and looked for tubes that would fit into one another. 

The boys sat and helped construct a telescope! 

"We will be able to see like all of the planets and stuff."

Today, we set up our telescope and see what we noticed outside. 

"You can see out the window! I can only see a tree right now.  I think it's in the way."

E looked over and noticed clipboards and started drawing the tree she saw in front of her. V saw E making some kind of observation and wanted to give it a try too. 

"I can only see the tree out there. I can also see the moon!"

The kids took turns peeking through the small end of the telescope and all pretty much noticed the same thing...the large tree out on the hillside. 

E didn't seemed satisfied with only being able to see the tree. He began stacking the blocks up under the large end of the telescope. He would stack a few blocks, then look through to see if he could see something different. 

"I can't see. It needs more blocks."

E continued to stack up blocks and look through the whole until he was content with what he was seeing. 

"I see the sky!" 

At the end of the day we revisited using the telescope and binoculars the kids made. 

"We can use the telescope to see the planets!"

"We can also see that tree and the plants with the berries on it."

"Maybe we can take it outside to look at more stuff!"

What else can we see with a telescope? Can we see things that are far away and up close? We are looking forward to use our telescope in all different places around school!