Halloween Fun!!

What a wonderful, busy and fun week we've had! It has been fun dressing up all week to help us think about being drug free. Then today we got to dress up in our Halloween costumes and have a parade for everyone to see our costumes. Get ready to look at about 30 pictures! I will have more to post tomorrow of each child in their costumes. I ran out of time tonight because it takes so long to post the pictures! While we were changing into our costumes, Mr. Terhune read some Halloween books to us. We love our volunteers... even when they have a bad hair day! (Just to see if my students are reading the blog... who was dressed up as a skeleton? Come tell me and you will get to pick from the treat box!)

While the children were getting dressed, Mrs. Ward slipped out and never returned! Instead, the substitute teacher, Miss Viola Swamp (from Miss Nelson is Missing), came in to be the teacher for the rest of the day! She was giving us a few warnings about the experiments she was going to help us with. First, we learned what dry ice is and that it is so cold that it can burn you. You must handle it with gloves!!

Second, you have to wear safety glasses during some of the experiments to protect your eyes! If you don't follow the directions, you will not be able to participate. Boy, does she look mean!


We started our experiments by touching the dry ice with a metal spoon and listening to it "scream." The ice is so cold that it vibrates against the spoon and makes the screaming noise.




Having fun with friends!

Aren't they cute!

Next, we put dry ice chunks in empty film canisters and as the ice subliminated into the air, it would pop the top of the canister! What fun that was! There were lids exploding everywhere... notice the safety goggles for this part of the experiment!

Ready to make the canister "blow!"

Waiting for them to pop.

When will they explode?? We had to change to another type of canister! You need to use the ones with the lids that fit down inside so they will seal tight. The ones with the lids that snap over the top let the gas escape without building up enough pressure to pop the top.

Waiting for the pop!!

I love this expression on KG's face!

Okay, this isn't working. We need the other kind of canister!

Waiting for the POP!

Still nothing!!

Waiting.......

Getting the other canisters out to try! Once they started popping, we forgot to take pictures!

Next, we made an exploding crystal ball. That was really cool! We didn't get a good picture of the crystal ball before it burst and spilled the fog on the table.

Here we are gathered around to watch the crystal ball.

We also made Boo Bubbles! It was fun to catch the bubbles and then watch them disappear in a poof of smoke! JP got one to stick to her chin!

If you wear gloves, the bubbles won't pop as soon as they touch your hands!

Waiting for it to pop!

This is sooooo much fun! I love the way NE's bubble seems to have a magical glow!

Catching bubbles from the bubble maker!

Double bubbles!

This is so cool!

Look at that concentration as CA tries to keep his bubble from bursting!