Today we had Rocks and Minerals Co-op. I like Co-op days because my friend Maria comes. The older kids did a lot of stuff on the computer, then we all sat down to watch a video. It was a 3-2-1- Classroom Contact episode called 'Crystals: They're Habit Forming. Maria and I really liked it. After the video. All the kids went out on the porch. Maria and I were the molecules for the co-op crystal lattices. Maria and I made our bodies the right shape; the older kids helped us. Pictures were taken and those pictures are being made into e-notebook pages for our notebooks. This one is finished. To see it big, just click on it. Tomorrow, I will show you Maria's Crystal Lattice page. It is not finished quite yet.

After we had our pictures taken, we all went in and made a super-saturated solution of sugar. That is a big word meaning we but half a bucket of sugar into boiling water. This is goinfg to make sugar crystals. Timothy made these two years ago and we still have the big crystal he made. We put it into one of the jars of sugar solution to let it grow wven bigger.

The big kids are working on a lab write up. I will tell you where to find that when they get it posted. You can use it to make your own.