On Friday we read the story The Gingerbread Man and the Leprechaun Loose At School By Laura Murray. We had a discussion about St. Patrick’s day and we talked about Leprechauns and their love of shiny things and how they like to store their treasures at the end of a rainbow. In the story the Leprechaun is quite the prankster so for our journal writing we thought about ways that we could try to trap a leprechaun if it was in our home or school and trying to steal our treasures.
As the weather didn’t allow for us to see a rainbow outside we tried making one in our classroom. Using the things we learned in our walking water experiment from the week before we put on our Scientific hats and made predictions about what would happen in the empty jars. We were right! since last time the empty jar between the yellow and red jars filled up and made orange, we predicted that the empty jars would fill with orange, green and purple this time. We got to see it happen right before our eyes. The neatest part was that when we left it over the weekend you could really see the rainbow not only in the jars themselves but on the paper bridges.
Have you seen a full rainbow before?
Ms. Pasqualetto :0)
