The students began the day focusing on the setting of a story. They chose and animal figure and worked with a partner to create a setting using classroom materials. Tomorrow students will write and draw stories based on the character and setting they made.

We were excited to test out our bubble wands today to see if our predictions were correct. "Is a bubble always round?" Many students thought the bubble would take the shape of their wand design but found out that the bubbles were a sphere shape. We watched a video explaining that water in a bubble solution is sandwiched between the soap and that water is many small molecules pulling toward each other. The students generated more new questions from this investigation including "Why does a bubble pop in the air when nothing touches it?" Interesting hypotheses included "it floats up high and the cold air pops it,"when it gets hot from the sun it pops,"because high up the air doesn't have oxygen so the bubble pops." Amazing scientific thinking!! We will continue to explore...

Room 15 & 16