Jack's new favorite game, curtesy of Auntie Di.
Times played: 3
Times Jack won: 3
3/21/11
Impromptu Science Experiment
While making the Irish Soda bread, we discovered that our brown sugar was very hard. I told Jack to put a piece of bread into the container to see if it would soften the sugar.
A few days later...
The brown sugar pulled the moisture out of the bread, leaving it really hard and the sugar very soft.
It worked like a charm!
Making Irish Soda Bread.
Making Irish Soda bread from scratch to go along with our Corned Beef and Cabbage.
Not bad with butter and honey, but tasted a lot like baking soda!
Proof that Leprechauns exist!
When we woke on St. Patrick's Day, this is what we saw:
Note the tiny green footprints on the toilet!
All because of the Leprechaun trap Jack rigged up the before going to sleep.
He even left some Lucky Charms as bait. Instead of catching one of the wee folk, Jack was left chocolates wrapped in gold foil and this note:
Jack is very proud to be "stalked by the leprechauns".
Field Trip to the Leonardo DaVinci Exhibit!
We went to the exhibit with Grandpa and Grandma.
There were lots of models to examine.
"The pulleys. The more circles for the pulleys the easier it is to make it go up."
"This one is a hammer. But you don't use your hands, it does it for you!"
"This is a mirror chamber. DaVinci thought you could see people from the past, but it didn't actually work though."
Writing a postcard to send to Dad.
Jack's favorite invention is the Scorpion!
"The Scorpion has a level to pull the stinger up and then let it go and it crashes onto another boat. There's little things so the catapult can't hit the drivers so it can still go on."
"Leonardo how he invented the tank, by studying turtles. And how he built the gliders by studying birds. How he made another kind of glider by studying leaves. He figured things out by studying nature."
3/10/11
Green Eggs And Ham
In honor of Dr. Seuss and his birthday this month, we made green eggs and ham.
Here goes Jack step by step.
How did you like green eggs and ham Jack?
I loved it!
3/9/11
Field Trip to the Wildlife Learning Foundation
North American Porcupine
Baby American Alligator
Fennec Fox
Blue Tongued Skink
Serval
"The rabbit was so cute and cuddly, I thought it was a stuffed animal."
Milk Snake
The biologist taught us that snakes smell with their tongues then asked the kids to see if they could too.
Red touches yellow, dangerous fellow. Red touches black, friend of Jack!
"At the presentation I really liked Sunny the snake."
Sunny, the Albino Burmese Python
"My favorite animal was the arctic fox.
I liked the cute tortoises and the bald eagle. "
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