Order In Chaos

Today is…Thursday July 14 2011

The moment we were finished with breakfast Giant was begging to do a Nature Experiment:

We did have our Gospel Message first though. I like how much better our day goes when we study the gospel and have a prayer first. We talked about how God talks to us, through the prophets:

For our Nature Experiment we looked at how water is a part of plants.  We weighed a tomato, some rice, and cup of water and wrote down their weight:

Galoot really wanted the tomato:

…and actually succeeded in grabbing it. Note to self—that kid has LONG arms!

We put our cups into the oven to evaporate some water. We were then supposed to measure the cups again and note the change in weight:

There was no change in weight.

Either our scale was not sensitive enough or we didn’t loose enough water, but there was really nothing exciting to note. Looking back, we could have just noted the physical changes—a shriveled looking tomato, a lower water mark, nothing really different with the rice. Oops. Oh well.

Disappointed but not undaunted, I grabbed another experiment about plants and water:

Popcorn!

We popped some corn (heating the water in the kernals until they exploded), cleaned up our other experiment,…

…and watched Zaboomafoo!

Which led to a little research project into coatis:

Which led to Giant asking a zillion questions about maps and countries and such:

Which led to a trip to the library for a kid friendly atlas (I didn’t want to spend the time hunting for a good kid friendly geography website):

Which led to a great investigation of maps and the geography of the world:

One of those learning moments you just can’t make happen!

The boys also read their phonics books:

Ettin hunted for t’s and m’s, and Giant read about a Tin man and a Pig.