Happy Halloween! We had a great day playing spooky games in the dark in the gym, eating gummy worms and drinking witch's brew. Madame reassured us that she had special permission from the principal and the district to serve us her spooky concoction, which was made possible by the not-so-secret ingredient: dry ice. We learned that touching it with our bare hands could give us frostbite, but Madame Sorcière was very careful with her tongs as she cackled and mixed her concoction. We even tried to make our own witch's brew outside in the dirt. Some of our ingredients may have made their way back into the classroom, too, for some amazing mud pies. We had fun looking more closely at one of our pumpkins from last week. It's amazing how many seeds are inside! And it turns out that melting crayons on the pumpkin can make cool waxy hair! In Math this week, we've been wrapping up our patterns unit with a focus on music - the patterns we hear and the patterns in musical notation. We've been picking out patterns in well-known songs like "Hot Cross Buns", and even creating our own musical patterns! We're slowly learning to tap the patterns with French Canadian musical spoons. In the spirit of Halloween this week, Madame brought out some film canister ghosts for a spooky experiment. If we mixed alka-seltzer tablets with water, which ghost would fly highest?... the one with the hot water, cold water, or warm water? The majority hypothesized that the hot water would fly the highest, but as it turns out, the warm water ghost flew so high that it landed on the roof. Oops! A treasure for the maintenance crew to find! So why did the warm water ghost fly the highest? We realized that the hot water dissolved the alka-seltzer too quickly so it exploded before Madame even had time to get the cap back on the canister. The cold water dissolved the pill slower than the rest so the reaction was not as strong. In other news, we've been doing some research into squirrels. Madame showed us a crazy ninja squirrel video and we had so many questions! We wrote them all on the whiteboard and have been slowly adding to our information web throughout the week as we discover answers in books and through video clips. More to come on this topic... Extra pics...
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