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The Talent Show watch party (in person and online) was a success! Quite a few families showed up, and some church members too. The sound quality of our videos was not great, kind of terrible actually in some places. Still, overall you could understand the speakers. My kids wanted to watch it, even if they'd been at the watch party, so we watched over lunch. The ones who'd already seen it were in charge of "skipping the boring parts." 

Day 2 of dissecting went just as well as the first. The girls named their pig Wilbur since they had a male. The boys didn't name theirs; they had a femail. We saw all sorts of cool stuff... brains, lungs, kidneys, hearts, intestines, a few others. It did double-duty to prep them for the body systems test, just remembering the parts of the body, where they are, what they do, how they connect to other body structures. Of course, there's a lingering smell of preservative wafting from my room to the gym, but otherwise my classroom has returned to its previous state pre-dissecting.

The 5-6th graders wrapped up a few projects today. One group presented a powerpoint about Russia's involvement in WWII. They did super well; I learned a ton. The other two groups weren't quite ready so they'll present Monday afternoon. We also FINALLY did our egg car lab. Man, that was like pulling teeth to get them to finish! Here are their runs:

We also smashed the pinatas this afternoon. It was rainy today, so we broke them in the gym by slinging a string over the basketball hoop. The preschoolers watched. My kiddos did a fantastic job and built them well! It took many smashes to bring them down. In fact, the yarn holding them up broke, so we switched to pitching. One group member tossed, the other swung with a bat. It was pretty entertaining.