Someone had his first lesson today. He had such a great time!
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
Just in time
New socks for the little man. Just in time for it to be 50° and raining today. He seemed comfy :)
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Word Families
The Chipmunk is getting more and more comfortable with his reading (and admitting that he's reading). We're spending lots and lots of time reading together, of course, but I thought we'd try to help him find some extra confidence by playing with word families.
We wrote them all out on the driveway, found a rock, and started hopping!
We wrote them all out on the driveway, found a rock, and started hopping!
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Springing up!
Daylight savings here came along with 75° weather and plenty of rain. We're spending all of our time dodging the rain drops and planting everything we can find. We can't wait for veggies!
Friday, October 10, 2014
O Octopus!
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus;
If I were thou, I'd call me Us.
Ogden Nash
We moved on pretty quickly from whales once the Chipmunk discovered that sperm whale ate GIANT SQUID! The last two months have been pretty solidly spent in pursuit of cephalopods!
A cephalopod (head-feet!) is a marine animal. They have bilateral body symmetry, (mirror halves), a large head, and a set of arms and/or tentacles. In other words....squid, octopus, nautilus, and cuttlefish!
We always start with a trip to the library, lots of reading, and a look at anatomy.
The Chipmunk made his own version of the squid anatomy. Our favorite fact we learned was that the squid has a brain shaped like a doughnut. It's esophagus goes right through the middle!
Here is the Chipmunk's version:
The bagel is the brain, spaghetti is the esophagus, orange candies are smooshed together to make the THREE hearts (one systematic, two branchial), lettuce for the gills, and bread for the stomach. The tortilla is the funnel and the taco shell is it's beak!
It turns out that this week (Oct 8-12) is International Cephalopod Awareness Week! It's been an awesome couple of days of videos and beautiful photos. Here are a couple of our favorites:
We made an emergency trip to the aquarium today to check out the extra cephalopod activities they had planned this week. We went in with lots of questions and found the answers we wanted when we spoke to some of the biologists. They brought out a dissected squid for the kids to see and the octopus was really active. It was so much fun to watch him swim and crawl around!
The best part, though? One of the educators that we speak with regularly took us back behind the scenes to see the baby cuttlefish and sea horses! We saw some of the breeding tanks - cuttlefish, rays, some sharks, giant clams, sea horses, and jellyfish. Absolutely amazing and such a treat!
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