* Tell me all about the science lab reports you have started during writing workshop. What happened during the Sphere Olympics? Which ball won/lost, and what were the reasons?
* When you work on a science lab report, why is it important to run the experiment more than once? What is a hypothesis? What was your hypothesis about the balls in the Sphere Olympics? How did your predictions turn out?
* When you analyze your results, you try to come up with reasons why something turned out a specific way. For example, even though many of the balls in the Sphere Olympics were dense, not all of them made it to the finals. Loretta (lacrosse ball), Golly (golf ball), and Teeny-Tiny (small marble) were all dense, but Loretta won easily. Why?
* Explain how a small word changes when you add the "magic e" to it. What new words do you create when you add an -e to these words: fin, shin, tap, spin, glob, mad, man, and con?
* We started to make idiom books in late October. What is an idiom? Tell me about some of the idioms you have used so far in your book. What do the following idioms really mean: it's raining cats and dogs; don't let the cat out of the bag; you look like a million bucks; the game was a heart-breaker; and I'm feeling a bit under the weather?
* What are the 3 main parts of the water cycle? See if you can describe the models we made of mountains, precipitation, rivers, and water run-off.
* If you have 5 trays filled with 4 cookies on each tray, how many total cookies do you have? What is the total of 6 rows of 2 chairs? How about 8 baggies filled with 3 candies in each bag?
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