Teaching the 4th graders

As you may know, I'm planning on majoring in Elementary Education and I'm so excited. I get to apply this January and start classes ( if I'm accepted) next Fall. This means I get to take all my pre-reqs and such right now, including my cool physical science class. For a large part of our lab grade we were assigned specific topics and each partnership got to teach today for 2 hours at a local elementary school for the 4th graders. It was soo much fun! My partner Lauren and I were assigned the different states of water and how heat energy and temperature affect them. We wore cool tie dye shirts with our name tags Lauren made for us and some homemade water drop earrings...mine are colored index cards cut in the shape of a drop and scotch taped to regular earrings haha but it works :)
We've been planning this for weeks and had to do it in front of our class about 2 weeks ago and revise and make more creative and all these things adn today was the real deal. We started out our lesson passing around 3 different balloons, one frozen solid, one as a water balloon and one just blown up (supposed to be water vapor) and let the kids hold them and tell us the differences. We then explained the molecules in each and how far apart they were from each other and then the correlation of that with heat energy and how fast the molecules move in each of the different states and the temperatures at which each state is formed.
Then came the fun part. We had different color masking tape on the ground in various shapes. (the colors of the tape matched the colors of the balloons..) and had the kids pretend to be the water molecules and we had a molecule dance party!!! It was so much fun! When they were a solid they had to stand really close together and barely move at all due to lack of room and as I-the heat energy- touched their shoulders they got to move faster until everyone was touched and they got to change states. They moved to the next biggest shape and and acted like liquid molecules, then the biggest shape and got to dance their craziest. It was so fun to watch them and, when they were too shy to dance themselves, to jump into the shapes and dance with them.
It really made me so so excited to teach in a few years. Ya, a few years. How crazy is that?! If I get into the program I'll be teaching in 3 semesters. I'm so excited. And I was stoked because I want to teach 4th grade so this gave me a good insight into what it might be like :)
Here are some pictures and such. First of my partner and I, my cool outfit, the balloons and our cool shapes for dancing. I couldn't take pictures of the kids cause apparently thats illegal or something but I guess I got what I could haha :)