Monster and Monkey made name rockets to hang on our art wall. Monkey still has a very Picasso approach to his art work, ha ha, and Monster really wanted to put all the letters from bottom to top, so we had a lesson on what direction we read and write. (That spider is fake, by the way...)
As they glued their letters on, I opened our Usborne book of Earth and Space, and we talked about the planets in our solar system. They boys really liked learning how big each planet was, how many moons each planet has, and how many earth years it takes each planet to go around the sun.
We created some toilet paper rockets, which they stapled flat, because stapling is super fun. Monkey layered his rocket componenets and stapled them together as more of a rocket "pile", because, you know, Picasso. ;)
Next we tried out an experiment I had read about online: seltzer water and Splenda. Supposedly, when mixed together, it has a similar reaction as baking soda and vinegar. We wrote out graphs to track how much of each substance we put in the bottle, and then the results. Monster practiced writing numbers and we talked about how you write out one half, something we hadn't talked about yet. Monkey scribbled some lab notes:
First we sampled the sugar substitute and seltzer. Monkey really liked both, Monster wasn't so sure about the seltzer, and I missed getting a picture of the awesome face he took after trying the "sparkly water".
The results were not as cool as we had hoped, just some fizzling. I have has the Splenda for a while though, so maybe it is better fresh?
I asked both boys if they liked the experiment:
Monster- Yeah, but it just went splat.
Monkey- Yes! It was good. And a VERY BIG explosion!!!
Three year old's are pretty excitable creatures. ;)
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New Words/Terms: Galaxy, artificial sugar, seltzer, carbonation, orbit, and Galileo (he discovered some planets moons).
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