School's Out

Making playdough is great for occupying time.

Another Vanessa and Zane game, based on a game from Family Game Night. We put a number game board on the floor with contact paper. They made up number sequences and jumped on the numbers. A bell would ding if they jumped the sequence correctly. A buzzer would sound if they jumped the sequence incorrectly. They made tally marks for each bell that dinged. The game transformed to many variations including using a ball to determine the sequence, and then a sword to block where the ball would bounce. Poor Horton and Wonder Pet Tuck. . . they endured Zane's variation of jumping on stuffies. And then off to another game . . .  a version of Super Why, I think . . .

There was a two-hour delay on Monday and I picked up Vanessa early from school since she was feeling yucky. While she rested Monday into Tuesday, Zane did some school work. Poor little guy . . .

They didn't know they were doing science but we made sensory (density bottles) using clear plastic bottles and other various materials . . . again. First we squirted in corn syrup. Then we poured vegetable oil in to see the vegetable oil rise to the top. And then we poured in red water. The liquids separated into three layers with corn syrup on the bottom, water in the middle, and vegetable oil on top. We wondered what else we could do, so we put in puffy balls, pipe cleaners (yes, I used the un-PC reference), paperclips and safety pins. Then V&Z used magnets to fish the metal from the bottom layer to drag to the top.

I'm certain there were many times when Vanessa hopped on Zane's train to get to her violin performances. His engineering was superb and her performances were outstanding.