Week 4

We have mastered 2 more parts of our Daily 5 - Work on Writing and Read With Someone!
What professionals!
During work on writing, the students practice writing and spelling through a variety of assignments :) See what we do, why we do it, and how we look doing it below!

Students are responsible for keeping track of their work. They file their writing in a file folder titled either "Still working on" or "Finished." We also have a folder for ideas :)

I was so so impressed at how well the class picked up "Read With Someone!" There are so many rules to follow :) but they figured it out the first day AND had fun doing so!

This week, we also did a science experiment to get us "thinking like a scientist." We gathered together to go through the process!
First we observed and gathered information. Then, we made predictions. After we performed the experiment and recorded what happened, we discussed our findings and did some research to see if we got the same results as other people "out there." The final step of our scientific process is sharing with you! See our experiment below!

Observations:
- They are all drinks
- 4 types; sprite, coke, coke zero, diet coke
- They are all bubbly
- 3 bottles are clear and one is green
- All of the tops are different colors
- The sprite is clear; the others are all dark brown
- All are coke products
- All are sodas
- They are all the same size
- They all have the same amount of liquid in them

Predictions:
- Regular coke won't explode, others will
- Since they are all different, they will react differently
- They might shoot up
- The sprite won't explode because it's a different color
- It will shoot sideways
- It will shoot down
- The mentos will disappear/dissolve
- It will catch on fire
- It will make a mess
- The reaction will be hot

Experiment:
We dropped a roll of mentos into each bottle of soda and recorded with chalk on the wall how high each one went!

Findings:
- The diet coke and coke zero went the highest
- The diet coke and coke zero went the same height
- The mentos kind of disappeared
- It did make a mess :)
- It did explode!
- The sprite didn't really explode too much 
- It didn't go as high as we thought it would
- The leftover soda in the bottles smelled like mentos

Conclusions:
- The sugar causes the reactions
- The diet coke and coke zero (ones that went the highest) have fake sugar so maybe that is why they went the highest
- We used 1 liter bottles and the other experiments we saw, people used 2 liter bottles, so that may have made ours different