EEEEWWWWW!

Posting photos today of our lovely fungi growth on our purple table...we will be growing it until after the break. The bacteria growth, however, will have to be done by Friday or else we'll all return to a classroom so smelly that we won't be able to stand the room for our last eight weeks. Today we "spread" a nasty disease around the room as we reviewed communicable and non-communicable diseases. We then viewed our hands under black light and saw the evidence. We then traveled to the bathrooms and washed our hands for an entire 60 seconds with soap and water. We viewed our hands once again and the "disease" still remained, just not as much. We then used Germ X and viewed our hands once again....there was less disease, but it was still there....proving that we need to scrub, and sometimes wash our hands more than once in order to get rid of spreadable germs and disease. Hopefully the scholars will think twice before eating without washing their hands!

Scholars should be continuing to write their poetry pieces, work on their research papers, and tomorrow our book report projects are due. Polling the class today, 80% of students had already completed the project.....YAY!!!!! They are learning to get things done ahead of time, and relieving themselves of much unneeded pressure! We will be giving book report presentations starting at 8:30 tomorrow morning if parents would like to join us.

Tomorrow afternoon, right after lunch we will be running our classroom spelling bee. The Scripps bee will leave us with three top spellers in the class. Those spellers will have a packet to take home over the break and look over the words. Those three students will then participate in the School Wide Bee on the 12th of April right after school. Exciting times!

Thursday we will have our history test, and Friday our Latin American Luncheon in our classroom at noon. This will make for a great start to our break!

bacteria growth in a pint of buttermilk......yum!

Mold growth, tomato soup, plain, with dirt, with dust from the gym floor....