After Finally finishing the morning King & Queen routine (We finally finished all 25 students!) we have an extra 30-45 minutes to our day. While I say "extra time", it really means time we can now fit different lessons, seeing as we hardly have enough time to get through all the lessons scheduled daily! We've decided to add in some social studies and science time into our day along with starting spelling practice! Our first science experiment involved M&M's and a cup of water.
We paired the kids up and gave them each 1 m&m and a glass of room temperature water. Imagine the disappointment of the kids when we told them they wouldn't be eating the M&ms! Before we did the experiment we made a list of 5 predictions. The students thought an entire range of different things might happen. We had them drop their candy in the water and wait........
The color started fading, it turned white, and if they waited very patiently, the "M" on their candy floated, perfectly intact all the way to the top of their water :)
Look closely in this picture, you can see the "M" on the water!
They had a blast watching and waiting and finding out if their predictions were right or not!
So, the blue M&M's took a bit longer than the rest. This is the "Okay miss Faust when's the magic going to happen" face :)
not yet.....
They loved making observations and being scientists!
It was fun watching them be interactive and watch the different sequence of events unfold!
And yes, when they were done, we gave them each some M&M's to eat :)
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