Today we: had to rearrange the seating plan multiple times. The students are getting more and more restless every day as summer vacation approaches.
In poetry, we looked at the limerick and how it was made in the 1800s. Limerick is a town in Ireland, but no one knows why the poem was named this. After seeing some examples from various eras, we played with words to make one of our own. Select students contributed a rhyming word, or a piece of the sentence, to make our own 5-line limerick:
Papa made a soup that was tasty,
It was rather dry and pasty.
A little salt would make it a snack,
But Papa would give me a smack,
So I ran away quite hasty.
I should point out that the word snack was inserted only because the activity took longer than expected and the students were still trying to make up lines when snack time started. We came up with the word smack to rhyme with snack before the context was added. Everyone found it very humorous, and while it is not polite to smack anyone, this limerick was far better than the one they were trying to make about poo. As I said, it is a restless time of year!
In science, we experimented with making gas in a bag. Students took a non-latex glove and added vinegar and baking soda to it. They close the open end of the glove to watch the gas formed by the chemical reaction which made the glove fill with air like a balloon. We tried a few experiments with more baking soda and saw how much air we could fill, and tried to see when it would bubble over using a beaker over the sink.
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