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The caterpillar skit is coming along nicely. My kids keep coming up with ideas of things to say and do, so it's becoming more cohesive. Their latest idea is for me to make an appearance at the end and ask where Joe is (answer- he got eaten by the caterpillar). 

Mrs. L and I just came up with an idea for our teacher skit: Immanuel's Got Talent. Mr. E will be the judge, the rest of us teachers will have terrible talent. I will hula hoop (can't hula hoop), Mrs. L is juggling, Mrs. E will jump rope. Everyone else TBD. It ends with Mr. E saying "our school has to have better talent than this!" Then we cut to the rest of the class videos! Tada! Then at the end, Mrs. L and I will come in and say we want a redo... cue our "Anything You Can Do" video. It's gonna be so good.

My 5-6th graders did a lab involving static, cereal, and balloons. It kind of flopped, but was still a learning experience. Miss K and I tested if the balloon would pick up cereal prior to the kids trying it (rubbing the balloon in Miss K's hair to build up friction), but when they tried, the balloon didn't pick up anything. We tried all sorts of ways to increase the static. Nope. Didn't work enough. So then we brainstormed reasons why the balloon wasn't doing what we thought it should do. Maybe it was too humid. Maybe the sugar coating on the cereal played a roll. Maybe only the cocoa crispies picked up because they're made of rice flour and the other three kinds were corn flour. Maybe the metal tray caused the static to disperse instead of the cereal. We ran out of time, so they're supposed to finish it in the morning. We'll see if they actually do. They tend to move slower before school starts. I might have to carve out some time to write conclusions together. Or prod them into trying the lab again.