last night we got notice that the soccer fields would not welcome any visitors today because they are wet. (scott always laughs at how so cal natives freak out about a little rain). in any case, since all our games were cancelled and it was our first saturday in months uncommitted to anything, we celebrated with a trip to the observatory.
the little k's learning about moon phases
studying the periodic table - the "ingredients" used in every "recipe" to make everything we can see on our planet! kik asked, "even the ingredients used to make my finger?" i told him yes. he asked if he could make a finger and i said that only God gives life so He uses the some of the ingredients we see here to make the finger and even though we know what the ingredients are (or somebody does), we cannot make fingers because we cannot create life. (i realize we procreate, but that was not what was being addressed here.) then we noticed some buttons labeled "gases", "supernovae", "human body", and so on. when you push the "human body" button, it highlights just the elements that are found in the human body - so we then could see which elements God uses to make fingers. :) how about that?!
hanging out with einstein
hunting through planet facts to find the planet whose day is longer than it's year. (some fact i heard last week somewhere).
we're studying astronomy & physics this year in our CC memory work & experiments well so everything we saw applies to what we've just learned in the past 6 weeks or what's coming up!
how could i leave out the picture of the hollywood sign? just last night, we were watching superman and these letters were falling on the girl scouts? hiking beneath. kik says, "they should have moved up toward them so they wouldn't fall on them." and today we got to see the letters in person, and there was no earthquake so the letters didn't fall. :) (we also, of course, saw krypton in the periodic table exhibit - how timely that we decided randomly to watch that movie last night.)
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