Baths, guns and Brum...?
Here are the boys enjoying an afternoon with a really cheap but involving construction kit which Daniel found. He loves his guns, not because he's aggressive or planning a crime-career in a hoddy on the streets, but he just loves making them. He is forever creating them out of paper and card, and spends hours scouring through You Tube watching videos which other people have posted of themselves making them.
However, this was proving slightly more complicated as it involved screws, spanners and screwdrivers, and neither of the boys particularly like those, but they made great progress and got it done in the end.
As a side note, I took Laurence off to the Motor Museum to meet Brum, and to gawp (literally) at the thousands of cars and vehicles on display in the toy section. We then spent a ridiculous amount of time browsing the shelves for something to take home with us.
He eventually plumped for a quad-bike.
It's daft really, considering that we have been here for nearly a year now, it was our first visit to the museum. I guess it doesn't always pay to have things right on your doorstep. I have managed to find time to visit places miles away, but not the one place which is a ten minute walk away :P
Ethan and I have been working hard on science, and forces. The many experiments which we can do to aid this are countless and too many to list here. But needless to say that we have been having fun with density, buoyancy and pressure in particular (anything which requires the use of drawing pins and mindless pushing and pulling and dangling of objects until they come crashing down is always going to be fun) :)
Also, because of this, we have begun to explore some of the old mathematicians like Louis Pascal, Isaac Newton and Archimedes.
Updates to come. And also a possible reenactment of perhaps the most famous bath ever taken....Eureka!!!!
Loz
If you are re-enacting famous old experiments, be sure to do Galileo's one of dropping a large heavy object like a rock and a light thing like a pebble at the same time. You can do this from a first floor window if you do not have a Leaning Tower of Pisa handy. Every kid's book tells you that he found that both objects struck the ground together, but this is not at all what happens, nor what he actually claimed in his writing. In fact, as you would expect, the heavy object hits the ground first. This is good for showing your son why he should not believe everything which he reads or trust what 'everybody' knows.
ReplyDeleteThanks Simon, excellent idea, and you are quite right, not everything we read or hear about should be taken as solid, especially as science is finding new things all the time. It's quite the struggle to keep up sometimes!!
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