This week's lesson went well! When Erik and I walked in to the classroom we got a very warm/excited greeting from the students.  It was a very encouraging way to start off soil lesson number 2! 

One of the focus areas for this week was lesson intro, which I actually had a hard time with.  Lesson two was almost identical to lesson one, it just involved more substances to observe.  Finding a catchy way to connect with the students lives was very tricky.  In the future I can imagine this will continue to be a portion of lesson planning that I might need to spend extra time on.  

As far as materials management goes, there have been no issues thus far.  I think our successful material management comes from the fact that we plan well, and prepare all the materials for each group of students beforehand.  If we used the material gathering strategy the way the kit's teachers' guide says to, it would definitely take three times longer than the way we do it.  

The number one area for improvement in the flow of our lessons is hand washing procedures.  Last week the kids ended up all forming a singe file line and took a while to get through everyone to wash their hands. This week we tried to implement more of a rotation in groups strategy. We even wrote out in our lesson plan, an explicit description of how we would carry this out.  Regardless of the thought we put into it, the hand washing ended up going almost exactly as it did last week!  We may need some professional help here for what we should do in the future.