Our day so far
After chores and watching Kiki's Delivery Service
and finally getting out of pjs, the kids did a few "tick-box"
things from their folders and the boys did touch-typing. Ds2
translated rude English sentences into Spanish. Ds1 read a few
pages of chemistry IGCSE and didn't grumble. Too much.
Ds2 and dd launched into some Art from the Fine Arts Harmony Course (making clay and wire figures), while listening to Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (to go with our 'moon' theme today) on Youtube.
We may not be very cultured, but we can at least do a good job of faking it.
We may not be very cultured, but we can at least do a good job of faking it.
Continuing with our Solar System/Space theme, we watched this on the moon and tides. Then, inspired by this, dd and ds2 made 'moon craters' using marbles, flour and chocolate powder.
Ds1 put this film together, with a little help from ds2.
Ds1 put this film together, with a little help from ds2.
The experiments indicated that, yes, we could make craters just like those on the moon. The experiments also showed that flour and chocolate powder go a long way and don't brush off black clothes as easily as one might expect :)
Soon we will be heading down the library to return our - always overdue - books and to pick up a reservation of an audio CD for bookclub (20 discs. Yikes.) Then dd and ds2 will be going swimming with friends.
And now...
Dd has just rediscovered the asteroid landing zone that I brought in from the threat of terrestrial rain. She is currently covering the conservatory table, and herself, with flour and chocolate powder. Joy.
1 comment:
Great video!
I've been doing some work on the dinosaurs with my 5 year old and this might help explain the whole meteor/extinction thing :)
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