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Science Matters

One of the units I teach my fifth graders is called Chemistry. We talk about matter, atoms, mixtures, solutions, etc. On the day we were talking about matter, I was trying to get them to see that matter is in ALL things so I asked them to name things that were made of matter. In my second block class, most of the kids just looked around our classroom and named the things they saw: window, curtains, books, teacher, students... that is until on student, who had just come back from a vacation in Hawaii shouted out:

Him: Pina coladas!!!
Me: What?!?
Student 2 (singing): If you like pina coladas and gettin' caught in the rain...
Me: ?!?
Student 3 (a girl who just returned from vacationing in Cabo): VIRGIN pina coladas.
Murmuring in the background: What's a virgin?!?

I think that's a discussion for another time.

YIKES!

I hadn't posted in so long that something weird happened to my account and password. Finally figured everything out and here I am again.

Ready to write some more. I've missed it!