Eli was Butterfly of the Week in his class this week. That meant that he got to bring home the class mascot last weekend, make a special poster with fun facts about Eli, bring in pictures to share with the class, and perform a science experiment with a parent for the class. Oh joy.
You'd be shocked to learn that I have a degree in Elementary Education, given the amount of stress this type of thing causes me. Or to learn that I speak in front of a group of adults for an hour each morning. For some reason, teaching kids is different. And scary :)
Eli and I settled on a sound vibration experiment. We chose 6 or 7 small objects to place inside of a balloon before blowing it up. Then we'd spin the balloon around (causing the object to rub up against the balloon walls), to see what kind of noise, if any, it made. At home, the results were clear-cut: we made three groups based on the level of noise. Once we got in front of his class, it wasn't that easy, as it rarely is. To start with, Eli insisted on spinning the balloon each time, but he was so hyped up about being in front of his classmates that this turned into him shaking the balloon, creating nothing more than a 'thud thud' sound for each object. I did my best to rein it in, but the objects didn't 'perform' as well as they did when we tested this at home. In the end, the kids got to watch Eli play with a balloon for 10-ish minutes. End of lesson.
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