Bringing Your Work Home

When your mom is a teacher there are certain things that happen to you that don't for other kids. You have to get up much earlier than any of your classmates because your mom needs to be at work so early. Your parent conference is always either before or after the actual conference days because your mom is having conferences on those days too. She is always off with you on vacations and snow days. No matter how much you try to convince her she actually can tell you no, that really isn't a closed syllable word and she is right. And don't even think about trying to get out of doing your homework, trust me your doing it. You also get to be guinea pigs for projects she wants to do in her own class.

Here is the lesson plan, my science class is studying geology. As an interactive lab the kids will practice taking core samples just as real geologist do. How do we practice such a skill? Well, with cupcakes naturally. The cake batter is divided into three different bowls and different colors of food coloring is added to each bowl. A little of each color is then placed in each cupcake wrapper to bake with a multicolored layered effect. The cupcakes are then frosted (we choose to make that green... you know grass). Each child gets a straw to press into the cupcake and get a sample. They sketch their findings and make predictions about what the inside of the cupcake looks like. As with all hands on activities to be done with a class of 26, it is helpful to test it to make sure it works. Bring in my test subjects...

As you can see they took their work very seriously.

And in the end it was a success!

Now tomorrow I just need to do that all over again. Hopefully they as excited as Chloe in doing 6th grade science.