Metals and Solubles.

For science, we had a lesson on metals. We talked about all the characteristics of metals and did experiments to exemplify those characteristics. We talked about luster, conductivity, solidness, malleable, elasticity, ductile and hardness, and here is a photo of me listing them as we explored each one, but you can't read it very well.

The next week we talked about Soluble vs insoluble. We made water/oil lava lamps as part of this which everyone loves:

We also brought out the nail polish and talked about how nail polish is not soluble to water, but it is to acetone and then we brought out the nail polish remover. Guys, during this lesson 8 years ago, I wrecked a table with nail polish remover. I was not going to do this again. I put on a table cloth.

Well, the kids got really carried away with the nail polish (I think most little boys have a secret hope of playing with nail polish and can fully feed that hope when their science teacher tells them to) and I didn't clean up right away, and there was a HOLE in the table cloth, and my table noticed. Whaaahhh.