I Didn’t Take Home the Class Pet, but I Did Take These!

You would think I must have thrown out the old science experiment which we begin in the fall. If you have followed my blog before, you would have seen our LOVE and HATE jars science experiment. I never threw them out but let them sit the rest of the year. I honestly thought it would make the experiment go awry. Very few kids talked to them if at all since January. I kept telling the kids we would smell them and open them on the last day of school. Very few kids came on that day, but we opened them. The smell was even more pronounced than the original 30 days of experiment. The jars had basically sat in the room for 5ish months. Again this experiment blows my mind every time! What an amazing weapon our mouth is for good or evil towards others! If you do choose to do this experiment, I recommend doing the strawberries because the smell is much easier on the nose. However, the rice shows. a more dramatic visual effect.

So, how could I throw out such an amazing quantum physics experiment! I took it home for the summer. It sits in the kitchen on the floor by a window. Sometimes I talk to the jars–strawberries of 2023!