There was no question as to what type of weather we needed to note on our chart...it was raining. It rained heavily until after 5PM. Yuck.
We started off with some pages from Aspen's reading primer. We're using a series called Explode The Code and she is just about done with the first book, Get Ready For The Code.
Several new toys kept Abby occupied and out of her sister's work. This Melissa & Doug clock toy normally sells for anywhere from $12.99 and up, but we scored it for $7 at a local consignment shop. Yay!
We started learning about oceans today, and we learned about currents and water movement with a neat experiement called Ocean Motion, in which we added a drop of food coloring to a pan of water and blew across it with varying degrees of force to watch what happened. Aspen loves any kind of water play so this was right up her alley and she played around with it for quite a while. We had read the story of Jonah and talked about the storm and the boat being tossed around on the sea, so she put a cracker in there and blew it around to show me how scary that would be. It was so cute!
For art today we made crepe paper ribbon dancers. It was super simple but gave Aspen some good measuring practice. I let her measure out 6 feet of streamers herself and then she taped it to the stick. We then made a 9 foot one for Ashley and they both had a great time playing with them indoors.
Because of the rain we had to scrap the activity she really wanted to do, which was to use her Dad's 100-foot measuring tape to see how big a blue whale is. They're 100 feet long, by the way in case you didn't know that. I didn't, until I was researching this project. 100 feet is big. I mean, really big! I'm hoping we can get to that tomorrow. Instead we watched a neat IMAX ocean video called The Blue Planet - Ocean World. It was really neat and I was glad to see her very interested.
All in all, we're off to a good start.
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That picture of the two of them looking out is so cute!
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