Excellent day + science journal
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same_skyFirst on the agenda: I am all sheeplike, and set up an account at Dreamwidth. Because all the cool kids are doing it in response to LJ's week of downtime. Or...something. I dunno. I imported everything and may now crosspost.. I don't really anticipate switching though. I mean, I know that I am currently prolific enough to warrant multiple journals and all, but... :) I am same_sky there too, for consistency's sake. http://same-sky.dreamwidth.org/
Today has been an excellent day! We had gymnastics this morning, which was fine, and then we came home for lunch, and headed back out to go to the game farm, which is a free wildlife park located half a mile from my house. The weather was perfect today. Seriously perfect. I can't even begin to think of how you could change it for the better. So, we walked around, holding hands most of the time, and I slipped in a whole lot of educational material, reading signs to her and explaining environmental concepts. (That's their big focus.) It was homeschool preschool science field trip sort of trip, so when we got home, she drew a picture of her observations in her science journal*. Then I got a wild hair to pack a picnic and the three of us headed down to a park on the river to eat our dinner, after which we took a short leisurely stroll and then returned home, where she went to bed properly and easily. It was... so very unlike us, and so very pleasant. Quality family time like that doesn't happen as often as it should. :)
Well, some of us had a leisurely stroll. Some did not.
Oh, the science journal. I started this a few months ago, and we don't necessarily write in it all that often, but it is awesome. And don't I sound involved and teachy-teachy and pretentious? It's just a plain spiral notebook that I pitched to her as a science journal because she L O V E S it when we do science experiments and projects, and this makes it more of a Thing to her. I'll write the date and the name of the experiment, and a brief description of what we were doing. (I was planning on letting it be all her, but decided that it was worth a bit of commentary from me so we'd remember what it was about later.) Now, we can look back at the things we did, and see her little drawings. It's adorable. We also add pages for hypothetical experiments, occasionally, or sciencey concepts. While talking about what exactly an "experiment" consists of, we talked about how we could come up with an experiment to test various things, and her idea was to find out what kitty cats like to eat most. (Her hypothesis was mice.)
Notice how I didn't show you the drawing she did of the game farm today. This is because (I think) she drew a picture of the children's museum that we took her to last year instead of the game farm today. ??? You win some, you lose some. :) At least, I don't remember anything about blowing bubbles at the game farm, whereas there was an entire room at the museum that she just so happened to be talking about all afternoon today.I thought at first she was talking about the fish pond (because there are bubbles there in the water) but I think I'd remember it if I had used a bubble wand at any point to blow bubbles at the fish.
:)
Today has been an excellent day! We had gymnastics this morning, which was fine, and then we came home for lunch, and headed back out to go to the game farm, which is a free wildlife park located half a mile from my house. The weather was perfect today. Seriously perfect. I can't even begin to think of how you could change it for the better. So, we walked around, holding hands most of the time, and I slipped in a whole lot of educational material, reading signs to her and explaining environmental concepts. (That's their big focus.) It was homeschool preschool science field trip sort of trip, so when we got home, she drew a picture of her observations in her science journal*. Then I got a wild hair to pack a picnic and the three of us headed down to a park on the river to eat our dinner, after which we took a short leisurely stroll and then returned home, where she went to bed properly and easily. It was... so very unlike us, and so very pleasant. Quality family time like that doesn't happen as often as it should. :)
Well, some of us had a leisurely stroll. Some did not.
Oh, the science journal. I started this a few months ago, and we don't necessarily write in it all that often, but it is awesome. And don't I sound involved and teachy-teachy and pretentious? It's just a plain spiral notebook that I pitched to her as a science journal because she L O V E S it when we do science experiments and projects, and this makes it more of a Thing to her. I'll write the date and the name of the experiment, and a brief description of what we were doing. (I was planning on letting it be all her, but decided that it was worth a bit of commentary from me so we'd remember what it was about later.) Now, we can look back at the things we did, and see her little drawings. It's adorable. We also add pages for hypothetical experiments, occasionally, or sciencey concepts. While talking about what exactly an "experiment" consists of, we talked about how we could come up with an experiment to test various things, and her idea was to find out what kitty cats like to eat most. (Her hypothesis was mice.)
Notice how I didn't show you the drawing she did of the game farm today. This is because (I think) she drew a picture of the children's museum that we took her to last year instead of the game farm today. ??? You win some, you lose some. :) At least, I don't remember anything about blowing bubbles at the game farm, whereas there was an entire room at the museum that she just so happened to be talking about all afternoon today.I thought at first she was talking about the fish pond (because there are bubbles there in the water) but I think I'd remember it if I had used a bubble wand at any point to blow bubbles at the fish.
:)
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Date: 2011-08-12 02:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-12 04:12 pm (UTC)We also contemplated an experiment about what M would like to eat most. I think bacon would win, but Evie felt marshmallows should be a strong contender. I am pretty sure that bacon > marshmallows, always, but that's the value of experimentation, I suppose!
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Date: 2011-08-21 10:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-12 02:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-12 06:36 pm (UTC)It was a great day. And I love the science journal too. I date everything that is worth saving (that I see, or think of, of course) but I refuse to save random scribbles, once she was well past the scribbles stage, that is. :)
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Date: 2011-08-15 05:22 am (UTC)Sounds like a perfect day at the park! I love that she has a science journal. That's so cool!
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Date: 2011-08-30 08:35 pm (UTC)I mean, not that it's weird to finally get around to replying fifteen days later or anything.
Miss hearing more from you! Hope you're doing okay. :)
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Date: 2011-08-30 07:32 pm (UTC)I've been playing with various blog sites out there, too. Tumblr is free, but I'm not sure how I feel about the format yet. How did you get an invite at DreamWidth? Does it coordinate with other sites (besides this one)? Interesting.
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Date: 2011-08-30 08:33 pm (UTC)http://dw-codesharing.dreamwidth.org/447010.html
The main community there has more, maybe. I was going to check to see if I had any invite codes (I don't think I do) but the site was down. It has now been down at LEAST twice since I signed up whereas LJ has not been down at all that I've noticed. Ironic, kind of. I think it might cross-post to other sites, too, but probably just the ones based on the LJ style platform. I'm not really sure about that.