Last year, all we did was fight about school.
I believe the fighting, forcing, bickering, stressing
began the very first week of fourth grade.
This year, I swore it would be different.
So far it has been.
These are some of the things I heard from my kids today:
"This is Fun."
"I love school."
"What happens when we mix it"
Today we used some clay, vinegar, and baking soda
to make volcanoes.
We read three books about how volcanoes are formed, what
makes them erupt, and how they are classified.
The kids were THRILLED to build their own
volcanoes.
Each of them turned out to be
different shapes, sizes, and colors.
They ALL erupted
when we added the baking soda and
the vinegar.
We added varying degrees of vinegar and baking
soda to see what would make the biggest
explosion.
Baby J had fun feeling the lava and then
letting us know that it was not
hot.
Doodles had great fun making sure her volcano was just
perfect. She was very excited to see how
many times we could make it erupt.
Perhaps the most fun was had when it was
time to clean up. Let me tell you, our table and floor were a bit messy
with vinegar lava. You see, every good volcano needs a vulcanologist's
(I learned today that a vulcanologist's is someone who
studies volcanoes). My four vulcanologist
sure did explore their volcanoes.
They found that once vinegar is mixed with baking soda it won't erupt anymore.
They also found that sticking their fingers deep into the volcanoes
made them erupt all over again.
All in all, today was a whole lot of fun.
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