SCIENCE!

Tuesday is Pajama School Day.  I try to make it interesting for Alice but was running low on ideas so I asked her what she wanted to learn about.  She said stars.  Well, I didn't have any books on stars that day, but I did have one on black holes so we read that and then we learned about gravity, since black holes are like gravity holes.

First, we painted with watered down paint on vertical paper to see what gravity does to paint.  It pulls it down.

 Then we experimented with the effects of gravity on different sized and shaped objects and found that they all land at the same time.  Gravity pulls the same on all of us!

 When Greg got home from work, Alice actually remembered what we learned that day and was excited to to tell him that we did art projects and science experiments.  I patted myself on the back.

And decided to repeat this week.  This week we learned that gravity is a force and that there are other forces and that if we apply different forces to the same object we get different results.  Which were not the results we were supposed to get because a preschooler isn't super good at apply consistent forces.  But with this experiment, we also got to practice measuring and reading numbers and recording data.

Alice picked a few cars to send down a slide with no force, a little push or a big push.  We recorded the type of push, the car and how car the car went.  Again, due to inconsistent force application, we couldn't draw any conclusions from our results.

 Then on Wednesday, Rex was upset that he didn't have any friends at school.  After some discussing, turns out he was sad about not doing any science at school. So we did some science at home.  We learned the states of matter and practiced changing states of matter by melting ice.  Greg even had a fancy thermometer we could use to watch the change in temperature as the state of matter change.   Then we made some mixtures to put in ice cube trays (water and vinegar; water and baking soda; water and salt; water and soap, etc.) and put them in the freezer.  We made hypothesis about which would freeze first and which would freeze last and then measured their temperatures every 30 minutes and recorded our findings.  Rex and Alice thought it was great.

Now Rex asks me every day when we're going to do more science.  Oh dear.

PS I think if I were to start a preschool blog, I might be a little more successful than a fashion blog.  Too bad I want free clothes and not a bunch of free homeschool books--though I wouldn't mind a few.