Science art...

Billed as "artwork & nursery decor for serious science nerds", this site has some really cool geeky art. This is a great site for people like me. Cindy, you were the first person I thought of when I saw this! That's a compliment. :-)

"Well, technically...If you have ever started a sentence with those words, then you are officially a nerd. And studies conducted using statistically invalid sample sizes show that nerds do NOT stop being nerds once they have kids."

Kinetic Energy

Today while playing a modified version of croquet (just the hitting and sending part, no wickets) we had a little lesson on kinetic energy. I pointed out to DS1 that is was science and physical education, and even math, too (when the wickets and posts are set up).

We all took turns sending each other's balls by holding one with a foot and hitting it to transfer the energy to the next ball. We even did it with 3 balls, so the last one in the line got almost all of the energy. Then we did it without holding the first ball and saw that only some of the energy transferred because both balls moved.

ART and Letting Go

Or should that be The Art of Letting Go?

"Mommy, this is the nicest you have ever been to us!"

It's a lot easier to let go when I realize that I'm not in control anyway.

It started out as a simple sponge painting craft, with one paintbrush.

Then finger painting was added. Then painting a big piece of white paper, and hands, and arms, and the picnic table, and the deck.

Then feet were okay, and another piece of paper, and a bucket of water, and another piece of paper. The small original sponge paintings are taped to the deck railing to dry but not blow away

What a wonderful morning! When the paint was gone, they took off wet painted clothes, washed in the bucket (the 4th refill -- it had been turned into "water colors" and dumped several times), and went to the hall bathroom for a quick bath.

(The only downside was the DS2 threw some things off the deck, and since we had a weed treatment about an hour earlier, I did not want the boys to retrieve the items.)

Sonlight Postcard Exchange

We have received 10 postcards so far in our Sonlight Postcard Swap. It is for the Cores (1, 2, 1+2) that are focused on Introduction to US History, but DSs like maps and geography so much that I volunteered to send the Kansas postcards. We have only sent out 2 because I can't find my stash of Kansas map cards (or other KS postcards) and we need to get a stamp for the one going to England. They really had fun today coloring our poster-sized map and taping the postcards to the wall.