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Ospreys!

on November 28, 2017

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talk about ospreys here! nature walk, what they eat, how they catch fish, where they migrate in winter.

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Age-Appropriate Ready-To-Go Project Boxes

Over the holidays, Kiwi Co was having a sale on their monthly project "crates" subscription boxes so I decided to try them out. I ordered a 3 month subscription to the Koala Crate for my 2.5 year old and the Kiwi Crate for my 4.75 year old. Our first box came in early January with a kit for each of the girls. Each box contained 3 separate but related ready to go projects. Everything you need is in the box, including illustrated instructions, and a little story book on the topic. The Koala Crate had a cowboy theme and the 2 year old was supposed to make a hobby horse, a bandana, and a horseshoe game. It was awesome that everything you needed was in the box, including pre-cut felt materials. The felt hobby horse required quite a bit of parental assistance, but it wasn't hard - even though I was also simultaneously helping assemble a stethoscope for the 4 year old! After putting the hobby horse together, we took a break to save the remaining two projects for later...

Oil and Water Don't Mix!

Today, we tried an experiment out of a new book, "The Curious Kid's Science Book" by Asia Citro. We have only had the book for a couple of weeks and have just started looking through it, but so far, I'm really impressed. It's full of great ideas for slightly more complex investigations and experiments, and the chapters are well organized so you can easily find a project or experiment in a particular category. For example, they have a whole chapter on baking soda and vinegar, one on plants and living things, and one on food and candy, which we tried today. Lesson I wanted to do a science-related project with things we had on hand, so I checked out the food and candy chapter. We chose to do an exploration with oil and colored water, because it's always fun to play with food coloring. We haven't experimented with oil and water yet, so I thought this could be interesting. We had also been talking about molecules and how things mix when reactions...

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