i'm excited we're getting to the point where i can just tape paper on the table, pour some paints, and the boys use their imagination to just paint something. sometimes on project days i give them a direction, but i really love that we're getting to where they want to take their own directions. i think pace said he was painting an orange going down a river. probably to some sort of sorting factory or crusher. that boy and his industrial-mindedness! then max caught on and painted an orange going down a "bayer belt" (conveyer belt).
pace built a magnet truck with hydraulics. this is literally what this newly-turned 5 year-old said to me, "mom, you want to see my truck with hydraulics?" he constantly amazes me! another experiment we did (that i did not get photos of) was learning about air and air bubbles. we read a great book from the library called Air is All Around You. it's a really great young child level book about air, and it even included some experiments you can do. (i've since learned there are a ton of books similar to this one--you know what the boys are getting in their stockings!) the experiment we did was learning how air and water occupy space. during bath time that night we stuck tissues in a cup and put it straight down in the water. because of the air bubble, the tissues stayed dry! when you tilt the cup a little, air bubbles come out, making room for water to go in, resulting in wet tissues. the boys loved it.
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