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Our Daylight Adventures: May 2010
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Monday, May 31, 2010. Phase Change Experiment- Making Butter. I saw this idea somewhere a long time ago and today I had cream that needed to be used so we made butter (otherwise known as a phase change experiment). I filled a jar about 3/4 of the way full with heavy cream- -any container would work. To make butter just shake the container. As you can see Bam was not really into this experiment- Mom, do I really have to shake this- I want to play with my new toy! Wednesday, May 26, 2010. We started with d...
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Our Daylight Adventures: July 2010
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Sunday, July 4, 2010. Happy 4th of July! Despite trying to think of a red, white, and blue science project, I could not. June was an incredibly busy month for us and we are exhausted. Unfortunately July is turning into another busy month. Hopefully we can enjoy the lazy days of summer in August with many afternoons spent swimming in the lake! I saw these dinosaurs in the grocery store and decided that these would be our science project. To make them grow, we placed in them into warm water.
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Our Daylight Adventures: June 2010
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Sunday, June 27, 2010. I had heard of this experiment before but I didn't realize it was so easy to do. Over at Steve Spangler's website. He sells a tube for dropping the mentos into the 2-L bottle, but it isn't necessary. We were able to create a small geyser that entertained both children and daddy with out it. Bam and Bob running through the sprinklers afterwards. More fun than tanking a bath after this sticky experiment. Sunday, June 20, 2010. Our first project was Morse Code. Thursday, June 10, 2010.
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Our Daylight Adventures: Hiking and tarantulas
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Monday, October 11, 2010. We are very fortunate to live close to a wonderful lake for hiking and swimming. Earlier this summer during a naturalist guided boat tour of the lake, we discovered that one of the coves was named Tarantula Cove. Then last week I heard from somewhere that the tarantulas were out and about at the lake now. So when we entered the park, we asked the attendent about the tarantulas. He told us several things about the spiders so when we were hiking we were on the lookout for them.
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Our Daylight Adventures: Books about firefighting
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Thursday, June 10, 2010. Bam is VERY into all things related to fire engines; therefore, Bob knows a lot about fire engines although he doesn't show quite the same level of interest. In the last few months we have even discovered an author, Chris Demarest, who has written several books about fire fighting. We first discovered this book:. Then about a month ago at our library we found another one of his books:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. What Bam is reading.
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Our Daylight Adventures: February 2010
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Thursday, February 25, 2010. While the boys were not feeling well, we watched a lot of PBS's Sprout channel and saw this easy craft. The boys and I created our bats and now we are waiting for Daddy to make his bat so we can have a bat family. 1 Fold paper in half. 2 Trace your hand- fingers together, wrist along fold. 3 Cut out hand. 4 Glue to stick. I have one more Olympic themed activity that I will post early next week. Just not enough time to get everything done this week. Monday, February 22, 2010.
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Our Daylight Adventures: March 2010
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Monday, March 29, 2010. Learning about Japan part 2. Bam and I made origami talking dogs. Bam really liked making the dog. Since I didn't have any cute origami paper we used white paper and colored it and glued on eyes. This was a fun activity. Of Japan. For some reason he knows that earthquakes occur in Japan so he thought the lines on the map were earthquakes. Sunday, March 28, 2010. Saturday, March 27, 2010. Cover the poster board with starch then ad...
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Our Daylight Adventures: April 2010
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Thursday, April 29, 2010. Exploring our Neighborhood: visit to local nursery. Today we went on a tour of our local nursery. I am always impressed by this nursery and they did a great job with the tour. The tour started with worms and ladybugs, great way to get the attention of preschoolers. Then the children were given ladybugs to place on the roses. Of course we came home with ladybugs for our roses. For some reason we have lots of ladybugs in our front yard but not out back. Saturday, April 24, 2010.
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Our Daylight Adventures: Tie-dyed milk
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Sunday, October 3, 2010. Pie pan or other shallow dish. Milk (2% or whole). Fill pie pan with approximately 0.5 inches of milk. Add several drops of each color around the edge-. Dip toothpick into dish soap. Touch soapy end of toothpick to milk. When the soap tipped toothpick touches the surface of the milk the colors create beautiful patterns. The scientific explanation is too complex for young children, but this doesn’t stop them for watching and enjoying the chemical reaction. View my complete profile.
