Wednesday, November 8, 2006
-Astrid coloured pictures in a colouring book.
-Muirgen built a highway out of blocks for her little cars and trucks to drive on.
-Astrid put on 'Peter and the Wolf' - a CD where each character in the story is played by a different instrument in the orchestra - and danced, acted out and played tambourine along with it.
-The girls built a bus out of chairs which they filled with dolls and themselves.
-They helped me hang laundry.
-We baked honey harvest muffins.
-Astrid wrote in the discovery of King Tut's tomb on her timeline and drew a picture of King Tut as he looked in his mummy wrappings and death mask.
-We talked about the differences between how the Incas and the ancient Egyptians prepared and buried their dead. Discussed which way we thought was better. (We both prefer the Inca's method).
-Read a story book to the girls.
-Read a bit of an introduction to sound and light. Discussed what sound and light actually are. Did a couple little experiments to help us understand how sound vibrations and shock waves work. 1. We folded papers in such a way that when we brought them down quickly through the air from above our heads, the sound of them unfolding made a "bang" to demonstrate how a shock wave works. 2. Felt sound vibrations made by our voices by touching our throats and also by singing into a plastic bottle. 3. Tied a spoon to a string. Banged it against the metal table leg and compared the way it sounded when the finger with the other end of the string tied to it was placed in our ear compared to when it wasn't. Talked about how the sound is not as loud and clear when it travels through air compared to when it travels through a solid object (in this case, the string) right into our ear.
-Astrid chopped up the veggies that we put in our Pad Thai for supper.
-Read two chapters of 'Trumpet of the Swan'.
-Muirgen built a highway out of blocks for her little cars and trucks to drive on.
-Astrid put on 'Peter and the Wolf' - a CD where each character in the story is played by a different instrument in the orchestra - and danced, acted out and played tambourine along with it.
-The girls built a bus out of chairs which they filled with dolls and themselves.
-They helped me hang laundry.
-We baked honey harvest muffins.
-Astrid wrote in the discovery of King Tut's tomb on her timeline and drew a picture of King Tut as he looked in his mummy wrappings and death mask.
-We talked about the differences between how the Incas and the ancient Egyptians prepared and buried their dead. Discussed which way we thought was better. (We both prefer the Inca's method).
-Read a story book to the girls.
-Read a bit of an introduction to sound and light. Discussed what sound and light actually are. Did a couple little experiments to help us understand how sound vibrations and shock waves work. 1. We folded papers in such a way that when we brought them down quickly through the air from above our heads, the sound of them unfolding made a "bang" to demonstrate how a shock wave works. 2. Felt sound vibrations made by our voices by touching our throats and also by singing into a plastic bottle. 3. Tied a spoon to a string. Banged it against the metal table leg and compared the way it sounded when the finger with the other end of the string tied to it was placed in our ear compared to when it wasn't. Talked about how the sound is not as loud and clear when it travels through air compared to when it travels through a solid object (in this case, the string) right into our ear.
-Astrid chopped up the veggies that we put in our Pad Thai for supper.
-Read two chapters of 'Trumpet of the Swan'.
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