Science, Plays and other such things

Friday was a busy and fun day for all.  Kenzie had Renaissance Day at school.  The 5th graders were responsible for planning Renaissance activities for all of the grades.  Kenzie was in the Renaissance Dance group and so she taught the same dance to 10 different groups of students. 

Thank goodness for Aunt Debbie that made Kenzie and Kayla BEAUTIFUL Renaissance Dresses last year for Halloween!!

While Kenzie was dancing the day away, in Kayla's first grade class they were doing science experiments.  They are studying the states of matter and how those states of matter can change.  So Joe and I came in and we made Old fashioned homemade ice cream with the students.  We also did the Mentos in Soda experiment and tried to figure out if more mentos would lead to larger fountains of soda.  It turned out that you get maximum height with 8 mentos and more than 8 mentos gives you about the same height.  Kayla was my trusty lab assistant and helped me prep each bottle of soda and released the Mentos into each bottle!  She will make a great scientist one day!

Thank goodness for Joe's big muscles as we only had 25 minutes to turn the liquid milk-sugar mixture into frozen ice cream!

At the end of the day the 5th graders performed a modified production of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Nights Dream".  Kenzie played the mischievious fairy PUCK in the play.  She did a wonderful job and was so comfortable on stage!