science fair

yes, that's right, Irene participated in the science fair this year. She and two other kids in her class asked the question - how long will it take a drop of food coloring to completely color a glass of still water.

how long do YOU think it would take? i thought it would take about 5 minutes. Irene and her posse thought it would take about 10 minutes. would you believe it took 6 HOURS??? irene was upset that her hypothesis was wrong. i had to remind her that it's okay - *most* people get the hypothesis wrong. it's a way of learning. it's OKAY. then i remembered Meet The Robinsons and they have this great scene where someone's experiment fails and everyone cheers b/c it means that they've learned something - as we'd just seen that movie, i was able to remind her of that scene.

after that she started having fun with it. i helped several of the groups in the class. NO i didn't do the projects for them (you could tell one parent that had quite a hand in one of the projects as he was the one demo'ing it!!!). but i helped them get their layouts glued down and reminded them about spelling etc. it was more time than i knew i would be spending at school, but the kids were happy and irene was very pleased that i was able to help out in the class so much. so that's good. we'll do it again next year, i'm sure.