Busy Week

The name of this week is Science Fair. My 7yo is busy at work today putting the finishing touches on his display for his fantastic science fair project. He measured the movement of various stars and planets as they move across the sky. He's been printing out text, cutting colored paper for mats and insisting that he doesn't need my help all afternoon. I may post more as the week progresses. Tomorrow night we have to go set up our display at the fairgrounds

Some recent fun

Some recent school fun at our house. Science: learning about friction and gravity with a parachute experiment using quarters and homemade plastic parachutes. Which size parachute will make the quarter fall the slowest? Small, medium or large? Our hypothesis ended up being correct!

History: Vesuvius erupting over Pompeii (well, a small Lego version of Pompeii). After this day, 7yo said, "Thanks mom, that was such a good idea for an activity!" Score one for me.

From tonight's science lesson

This post is from 10/30/07

Dad: What step of the water cycle comes between evaporation and precipitation?
6yo: Constipation?