Mrs. England's class joined us for another yummy cooking club. Today, we made rainbow bars. We melted butter and marshmallows together in the microwave. Fruit Loops and Apple Jacks were added to the melted ingredients.

Since we had something to eat, we thought it would be a good idea to make something to drink too. We (Mrs. England and I) told the kids that we were making Kool-aid.....but we really gave them Jello mix. The "Kool-aid" was prepared and placed in the refridgerator to cool off. The drinks were passed out and the kids tried thier best to drink it through the straw. They didn't know what was going on because nothing would come up through the straw! After a few seconds, Mrs. Enland and I shouted,

"April Fools!"

We took a break from cooking club and turned it into a science club! We learned about tornadoes. The kids enjoyed looking at pictures of real tornadoes, along with watch a few tornado videos. New vocabulary words were learned too....funnel cloud, tornado, tornado alley, and debris.

Weather wiz kids gave us a lot of new information, such as the difference between a tornado watch and a warning. Check out the website....

www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-tornado.htm

Working in groups, each table made their own tornado in a bottle. We used two 2-liter empty bottles. We filled one 2/3 of the way up. Debris and food coloring we added to the water. The bottles were stacked and taped together. Once the tornado bottles were complete, we each took turns swirling the bottles. The kids were amazed when the tornadoes started to form in the bottles!

We are finally back to blogging!! I apologize for the lack of posts. Our school's website filter was blocking our blog for weeks. I am happy to report that we have everything back in order!