The boys have been enjoying their solar kits that they received from Santa. Here’s just one of the many things they can make. Very cool. They had to make a gear box and use wires for polarity. Fun learning!
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An nice interruption
Lessons were cut short today when our wonderful mail carrier (who happens to be a new grandpa to a 10lb baby boy!) delivered a late-in-coming gift. I love that. It makes the holidays feel as if they aren’t over.
Of course, the boys had to finish lunch first.????
Thank you, Aunt and Uncle!
Bubbling Wizard’s Brew
Today we are doing more science experiments. We have been using The Usborne Big Book of Science Things to Make and do. It’s a great book for fun and fast experiments.
We have some colored water I’m the freezer soon to become winter boats for our frigid -10 weather today! Brrr!
Then we took two glasses (please ignore the shape) filled with vinegar, food coloring, sprinkles and dish soap. Hmmm…sounds like fun, right?
We placed the cookie sheet under the glasses for containing the brew to come. The boys each got a heaping spoonful of baking soda and added it to the glasses. Holy excitement!
It’s always fun making a bubbly brew, isn’t it?
Enjoy your day. We are off to make sun catchers!
Making electricity
The boys got cool science kits from Grandma and Grandpa for Christmas. L’s kit is ‘Light’ and X’s is ‘Electricity’. They have paper wheels to colour, motors, alligator clip wires and more. Very cool!
X made morse code with beeps and L made it with light. Can you tell what the message says?
a little pat on the back
This is one of many homeschool blogs I follow with my trusty Google Reader acct. The quote below is at the bottom of one of her recent posts. Thought we could all use a little pat on the back. 🙂
“To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, cakes and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene; I can imagine how this can exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it.
How can it be a large career to tell other people about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.”
~ G.K. Chesterton
New Age Chess
It’s amazing what happens when I leave the boys to their own devices. Not that this is an incredible example but I find it’s full off imagination and innovation as well as classic childhood ‘doings’.
A fort plus chess. A chess game plus some new pieces. How they can tell who is now who is beyond me. But that’s okay. It’s not for me to know. It’s for children’s brains to create, assign and understand.
It’s for me to love and to always be reminded how precious childhood is.
Discovering Mommy’s Art Box
I haven’t gone into my tackle box of art supplies in a long time so the boys hadn’t seen the contents. I should have opened it a long time ago as L quickly broke out the calligraphy nibs and ink. X, eager to try as well but I only had one holder for the nibs. He simply grabbed one of the feathers from his collection on the window sill, dipped it into the well of ink and started writing it old school. Kewl stuff, my boys.
Gotta love being a kid. That glorious time before life has put up imaginary boundaries on your intuitive ways of problem solving. So free and full of life and all the wonders it offers!
ralph waldo emmerson
What lies beneath us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
Future chef, perhaps?
He even whisked them, spread the oil in the pan and poured in the eggs!
Oh, and not a single piece of shell fell in the mix!
Making Lemonade
