Elodea

The day began with an assembly about the gift wrap drive, and I've learned to dread these little pep rallies. For some reason, any change in the schedule, even a small one, can make the students agitated all day. Add to that some guy who promises them that they can ride in a Hummer limousine and the concentration becomes nearly impossible.

So it was, at best, an OK day. But we did have one high point, as you can see above, and that was our science experiment. We did this jointly with room 18 as we had most of the stuff needed and even more to spare. They supplied us with some boba drink tops, a neat substitution for the nearly-impossible-to-find funnels. Here's how the experiment went. Students had to put a piece of elodea (that's the aquarium plant I'm holding in the pictures above) under the boba top with a test tube sticking out of it. This odd arrangement was mostly covered by water in a plastic shoe box. Some of these will spend the weekend out in the sunshine, while others will be in the closet in the dark. What will happen? We'll see!

Home Studies: Do the final study sheet on the first chapter of the Science questions. Do the subtraction worksheet.