Thursday's Adventures

After breakfast today, we decided to try an experiment from Janice VanCleave's 200 Gooey, Slippery, Slimy, Weird and Fun Experiments... With a name like that... the kids are bound to like it, right? We did #110 called Erupting Colors. You fill a bowl with water. Then you add 4 drops of red, blue, and green food coloring to some oil and mix it up in a little cup. When you add the oil (with the dye) to the water, these pools of oil form and the colors "explode" outward then sink down through the water. The kids thought this was pretty cool.

Emily caught on to the fact that oil and water don't mix - hence the pools of oil in the water.... I'm not sure I adequately explained that the food coloring is water based, which is why you see the colors form spheres that don't dissolve in the oil... Then when the dye sinks into the water layer it dissolves there. Since it was so easy to do, we will definetly do it again.

It also gave me some time to wash the maple syrup out of the baby's hair. ;-)




We are done with Ping. Today, we put the little story sticker on the map where the story took place. The books we read in this curriculum are set all over the world so we will add to the map as we go. As you can see, our little Ping was placed in China along the Yangtze river. We move on to Robert McCloskey's Lentil next.




We made a quick trip to the library to turn in and pick up books. From there, we caught the trolley to the mall. The kids wanted to play at the mushroom place... I got a cute shot of Miss Lia. They are all in their rooms now for quiet time. We had a good morning.