Today’s highlight was definitely starting our water exploration. We are exploring how water moves and mixes by observing how food coloring blends into water and sketching what we saw on our ‘I wonder’ sheets. Rebecca observed that the falling ribbons of color looked like a spider’s legs, while Yianni noticed that the yellow was the faintest when mixed with the water. Juniper used the magnifying glass section of the sheet to record what it looked like looking down the glass, instead of just looking from the side. Tove was curious why the coloring mixed in, even if they didn’t stir it, which started a pretty deep conversation. Paolo was curious if he could add the food coloring first and then the water, but it mixed in way too fast. This is just the beginning of our explorations, so it’s great to see so many great observations and questions popping up.

Our problem of the day continues to be a real conversation starter, with our problem today centered around how many crickets Godzilla eats. Timo figured it was easiest to start by drawing the 30 crickets I bought, and Anja agreed, crossing out the crickets that Godzilla ate every day. When we were going through it, we drew it in groups of 10, which Max realized made it easier to skip count by 10 and see how many were left. After two days, Sokrates pointed out that 15+15=30, since we had crossed out 15 and there were 15 left. In the end, we struggled a little with the bonus, but only because it was a judgment question. With 5 crickets left and 3 days to the end of the week, Niki thought that would be enough, since it was more than one cricket a day. Teddy, on the other hand, pointed out that Godzilla ate more than 1 cricket a day anyway, so it probably wouldn’t be enough. It was great hearing everyone citing their evidence and explaining their reasoning. Great job everyone.