Wow, it's been way too long since I added a new post to this blog. Sorry! I missed a couple of Thursdays due to a district committee that I'm on. I really missed teaching on those days, but I especially missed the student experiments!!! I heard they were incredible. well prepared and very interesting! Luckily the students told me all about them and Miss Walton took some pictures of the terriffic scientists!

Halloween Parade and Party!

We had such a great time on Thursday celebrating Halloween! We had a parade in the morning and went all through the school showing our costumes and looking at those from other grades too!

Our new student teacher from BYU even joined in the fun and dressed up as the tooth fairy! With Cruella Deville and the tooth fairy taking care of us all day, we just weren't sure what to expect!

We made a very strange witches brew that 'most' of us tried a little bit of. Luckily no one turned into frogs or lost their hair, at least not yet anyway.

Ryan did his science experiment Thursday. In keeping with the Halloween theme, he made an interesting concoction that turned into silly putty! We each got to have some to take home! Yahoo!

Our room moms put together a great party for us where we got to make cupcake owls, play games and do some fun Halloween painting. What a perfect day!

Read-A-Thon!

To celebrate the completion of our Red Ribbon Week we brought our favorite books and ot to have a read-a-thon! We had a great time!

The latest scientists!

Ryan came up with an experiment all on his own, and also discovered that they don't always work just like you practiced. He did it again for us on Friday and showed us how the heat, like the heat of the sun, makes water in a lake evaporate. You could actually see the water bubbling up into the bottle. It was cool!


Max put baking soda into some vinegar to create carbon dioxide gas that would blow up the balloon, We kept it overnight and it still had about 1/2 the balloon filled up. Way fun!

Hooray for Pajama Day!!!

Today we got to sleep in and come to school in our P.J.s!!! We're celebrating red ribbon week this week and our theme today was "Follow your dreams, don't do drugs!" What a fun day! My only regret is that I was at a district meeting all day and had to actually get dressed for it so I didn't get to wear 'my' pajamas, and I didn't get to enjoy the kid's p.j.s all day. Oh well, thank goodness for pictures!

Science Fun!

We had a wonderful time learning about the force of gravity last week. We learned that is always pulling on us. It was cool to see how gravity affects balls of different sizes, pulling them to the earth at the same speed. But the shape of objects will fall at different speeds because of the air around them. "May the force be with you all."
Jacob's science experiment was a blast!!! He put Mentos mints into a bottle of Diet Coke and stepped back quickly so we could all watch the explosion! It was awesome!

Brock blew up a balloon and then taped a piece of straw to the balloon, then let go as we all watched the force of the air push the balloon forward. It was neat to watch the balloon go in the opposite direction of the excaping air!

Grace taught us about the interesting properties of water molecules. She was able to drop over 30 droplets of water onto a penny before it would spill off! After she was done we each got to take a dropper home to try this one on our own. Lucky!

We love science!

Tyler taught us how sound waves travel through a string and then the vibrations reach our ear drum. Each of the kids got to try it and hear how loud it sounded!


Ruby showed us how the light waves bend when they go through water. It makes things, like a penny and a plum look magically bigger! Incredible!

Kennedy made static electricty by rubbing a balloon on some of our hair. Then she showed us how the electricity would attract pepper to the balloon. It was interesting to notice that the balloon pulled up the pepper a lot easier than the salt.