Wednesday

Wednesday: Well today was full of investigations. I started to children with a story called “May I Bring a Friend?” The story is about a little boy that gets invited to tea, dinner, lunch, and breakfast at the King and Queen’s house but would like to bring a friend to every meal. After the story we talked about some things that we have been working on in writing workshop. For instance, the children reminded each other that we have been working on describing something, adding details, and giving our pictures and writing more meaning. We threw out some ideas to write about today like, favorite animal, activities, food, weather, and trucks. After writing, Mike read us the story by Eric Carle called, The Roster’s Off to See the World. Mike read up to the part where the rooster has two cats, three frogs, and four turtles. He then instructed the children to write and draw about what they think would come next in the story. For science we split the class into two groups and Mike and I each did a demonstration of how soap can break the water’s surface tension. In my demonstration I used a pan filled with milk and I placed drops of food coloring in it and the children observed how they swirled into the milk. Then I added some soap and the liquids really started to move. In Mike’s demonstration his pan was filled with water and he sprinkled pepper on the top and then added soap to show again how the soap breaks up the surface tension and causes the pepper to sink instead of float.