We have slowed down on our letters and started having a bit more of a science approach to our days. Noah's latest fascination is with the solar system. He can now name all of the planets and a blurb about each one... we have taken many books about the planets out from the library recently. The thing that makes me laugh every time is when he talks about Pluto.... "that's not really a planet anymore" then he laughs really hard.... not sure why that is so funny, but it makes me laugh too.
Our latest "theme" is using our 5 senses to learn about things as well as "solid or liquid". Our new favorite library book is "Bartholomew and the Oobleck" by Dr. Seuss...... cool book! It is a bit long for James, but Noah loves it so we read it often when James is napping or otherwise uninterested in reading. Yesterday we made some Oobleck. Per usual, no one initially wanted to touch it, but with some coaxing they had a blast..... it made a huge mess, but was fairly easy to clean up;) The neat thing about oobleck for those of you unfamiliar is that it is neither a solid nor a liquid (it is a non-Newtonian fluid for those fellow science nerds)... you appear to be able to pick it up, but then it just runs through you fingers.... you can stick you hand in it and it feels like water, but when you try to pull it back out it gets stuck. Anyhow, cool to explore with the kids.
We took on making pizza after that and it turned out to be a really cool scientific experiment using the 5 senses with the different textures, tastes, smells, and colors. The cheese was frozen, so that really threw them off a bit. Trying to expand their descriptive words beyond "it smells like cheese" or "it looks like cheese" was probably the biggest learning accomplishment here;)
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