Swingin'

My class loves to swing. Every time we have recess outside, they play a game they made up. One person is the judge who gives the swingers a word and the first letter of the second secret word. The swingers have to jump off the swing in a way that the words describe their jumps. The judge then ranks them based on how well they matched the known word and the secret word. They come up with some crazy words. Sassy (teacher). Long (lion). Fancy (bird). 

We delved deeper into DNA and cell replication today. Man, science is just clicking with these guys! It's awesome! We talked about how cells know when to divide, how cells die, how DNA gets fixed if the bases get messed up, why sugar seems to give you energy, and vacuoles (the one thing from my lesson I actually planned to teach them about haha). But as always, I'd rather have them learn this stuff when they're interested in it. Plus, they'll be ahead of the game in science class in two years. We'll see how much of this they remember... 😁