All About Science

The night before the snow back in January, Briana's school held a science night (1st annual I believe). Students from the local college came with experiments for the kids to check out.

You probably can't see it, but there is a small light bulb in the middle of the snowflake that Briana is holding above.

That night, it was cold and rainy. Really cold and rainy. I was almost wondering why we were braving the weather to go, but Bri loves science, so we went.

The first station we stopped at was the blow-up planetarium. Only a few people were allowed in at a time. Unfortunately, we were only in there about 3 minutes before we were asked to leave. The gym was getting so crowded and there was a long line of people waiting. It was cool while it lasted...

Then we stopped at the snowflake station...

Then we stopped at the scarecrow station (another light up bulb)...

To be honest, the whole thing was a hot mess. I don't think the school realized just how many kids (and parents) would show up. It was all crammed in the gym. There weren't enough students from the college to keep up with the number of kids from the school. They were taking too long to show each kid how to do an experiment, so the lines were getting ridiculously long. After three stations, we finally gave up and left. Bri said she enjoyed it, so that is what counts I guess. I won't attempt it again until big changes are made.

And keeping with the science theme of this post, the 4H club came to Bri's classroom the other day with some sound experiments. The kids really enjoyed it...

Bri really loves math and science. She really likes to read and draw. She really dislikes to write and spell. And she has been doing a lot of writing and spelling in 4th grade. Ugh - it's been a good year but a challenging one too!