One student read about Houdini and we ended up looking up more videos about him.
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We were reading about volcanos and one of the students wondered "If sand is little rocks, how come it becomes glass and not lava because lava is melted rocks" We watched 3 videos on glassblowing, which they found absolutely fascinating.
Side Note: I think every city needs to have a glassblowing studio to take glass from landfills. I think of the garbage dump here... instead of having the bottle rot away since there is no recycling center, wouldn't it be nice to put them to use?
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We were talking about 3 things we were excited to learn about. One student decided he wanted to help save the rhinos. We looked up the WWF site and he wants to fundraise some money. He wrote that one one of his goals this year. Another student updated her goals to having a job and being in college.
Many Students said the multiplication tables were the hardest thing they did in 2016, but it was often the thing they were most proud of. One student said their proudest thing was giving rabbits to the elders.
One student came back from break and said his favorite present was "crickets" and they were crunchy. Coincidentally, NEWSELA did a great article on edible insects. So several students had "eat crickets" on their lists of things they wanted to try!
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