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Door’s Open London
As a family we took in four of the sites to doors open London.
We went to the agricultural center, the train club, the HMCS Provost and the Secrets of Radar Museum.
It was good. We ALL learned lots. Justin had fun.
He had to answer three questions at each site.
1. What you remember,
2. what you learned,
3. what was the best.
In order
Agriculture center
– plants they were telling us about.
– plants can get diseases
– best thing was making smoke (dry ice, detergent and hot water).
Train Club
– (couldn’t remember anything) 🙂 —it was ALL trains so it’s not like you could pick anything out to really recall
– It was SO BIG!!!!
– “I wanted to see the whole thing”
HMCS Provost
– me and daddy were running around
– I could ring a bell REALLY loud
– Running around upstairs
Secrets of Radar
– Matching planes
– names of all the equipment
– Mommy telling me the names of all the equipment.
For those wanting a fuller picture of our day, go here.
Mommy!!!! Did you know?!??!!
that if you look at your hand through a magnifying glass it looks differenter?
Look at your hand mommy!!!
Whoa!!!
Mommy, look at this car? It looks differenter too!
What we Learned today : Paper Airplanes
Today we experimented with different paper airplane designs.
We talked about wind currents and lift, but mostly had fun trying out four different designs of paper airplanes.
1. was easy and fun to do. It kept wanting to hit Milo. It did like to crash land though…particularly after we added stickers to it. 🙂
2. we didn’t like. It was too wobbly and didn’t fly straight. “it’s not a good plane mommy.”
3. was HARD to make. It’s supposed fly outside and it went far inside, but it was VERY difficult to make and I’m not convinced we made it properly.
4. was easy to make and fun to do with a boy child. It flew like the first one… long and far and kept wanting to scare Milo (the lad’s cat).
will add pics later. 🙂
The lad also did
on some book work. Copying letters and doing some early math. 🙂
BLue Spruce
I asked our town librarian the other day if she could recommend books for our lad to read.
She said she couldn’t recommend a particular book as there are so many good ones out there, but that we should read some of the Blue Spruce books. Here are some titles to some Blue Spruce books.
From what I understand, Blue Spruce books are some of the best of Canadian authors in Children’s literature.
I do know that of the few we brought home today from the library our lad has enjoyed them immensely. They are a good read
Progressive Phonics
Thanks to whomever did this spreadsheet. I found Progressive Phonics.
I know what the lad and I will be doing tomorrow. 🙂
Should prove interesting…..
What We Learned Today – Magnets
Today I set the lad up with Magnets, iron filings, nails and what not. He took it from there.
Things the lad learned or that we talked about, not necessarily in the order learned/taught
1. water doesn’t change how a magnet acts
2. water doesn’t wash off iron filings
3. iron filings are fun to watch on paper – you can make them dance
4. iron filings will cling to a magnet and they are very sticky.
5. magnets can break easily if they are the stick type
6. magnets sometimes stick end to end and sometimes they don’t…sometimes they stick in the middle and sometimes to the side. (when I ask Justin if that is because of polarity he says yes)
7. nails sometimes jump up the side of a magnet while others just cling loosely and others stick very hard to the bottom of it and we don’t know why that is.
8. iron filings will rust.
9. magnets have a north and a south (but Justin doesn’t really get this at this point)
10. iron filings are very small…but they stick in long lines when they dance…it’s fun to make them move around in clumps. 🙂