My best teaching moment so far!

Our Skeletons Class Word Wall - Always a work in progress!       The girls are getting better - I started a reward system with Treasure Box Thursday - the team that earns the most points gets to pick from the non-food treasure box (we are forbidden to give candy or chips, although the Arabic teachers do it all the time).          We made a human skeleton and started an experiment with bones in vinegar to show calcium is in bones.  They have never done an experiment and were not too good at hypothesizing what would happen to the bones.  It was important to them to be right, so they kept asking if they were right.  They also wanted to copy the answer off the board - no critical thinking skills - just rote memorization here.        I had to guide them with questions like: Will bones turn purple?  (NO! maybe white?) Will bones grow into a new chicken? (No, unless Allah makes it so) When asked what kind of bones they were the girls all guessed pig???? Weird, but then we looked at the bones and they realized they were chicken wings.   I asked how do you know it is not a cow bone? (too small)   What part of the chicken?  They all flapped their arms like wings. This was probably my best teachable moment so far!  Good day overall.  I'm supposed to start centers around the room soon, but not sure they can handle it yet.  I need to get discipline under control and make them want to learn first.  It is hard to justify that they need school - most get married at 17 or 18 and don't go to college and families don't find it too important for girls.   Not surprising that my best moment so far would be in science!