Dr. Johnson's Reading Blog

Today, students made their own version of lemonade out of water, lemon juice, and sugar. They had to come up with their own recipe for lemonade before using that recipe to make lemonade. Unfortunately, students could not drink their own lemonade recipe. Student were randomly chosen to drink someone else's lemonade and rate it on a scale of 1 to 3. Tomorrow we will use language such as solution, concentration, dissolve, solute, and solvent to describe the lemonade they drank.

Here is some new information about what we are working on in class: 1) Math - We will be having a test on adding, subtracting, dividing, and multiplying decimals. We have been working on this for quite some time. Once we complete the test, we will be working quite a bit on fractions. 2) Science - We have done quite a bit of experiments during our mixtures & solutions unit. We did some work with chromatography (separating mixtures using water) and creating super saturated solutions. For our super saturated solutions, we are waiting for some evaporation to take place before we discover what will happen! 3) Reading - We started our whole class literature study of Out of the Dust  by Karen Hesse. This book gives a detailed portrait of what life was like during the Great Depression. Students have a literature log and have been answering particular questions pertaining to the book such as questions on setting, the characters, main idea, how the book made the reader feel, etc. Along