Arrrghhh clock changes ...moving on..
Owen decided to stay in bed and finish Diary of a Wimpy Kid this morning. He came down calm and happily ate his breakfast at 9:30. Sam had been up for ages and had finished his breakfast a while ago, so was amusing himself in a happy manner.
I had put some experiments out incase the boys fancied doing some things together. They did and after breakfast we built a hovercraft. It worked really well and we discussed friction as we built and played with it. Unfortunately, no matter how hard we tried, it made a high pitched squealing as we used it. So both boys and the dogs we rather disturbed by that!
On checking on our pop up gardens, both boys were amazed at how fast they have grown. They had put their spring chicks nearby to 'watch'. Sam tried some of the cress...he didn't like it and I just managed to catch the green splodge as he spat it out suddenly ...the things we mums have to do.
In between this I make soup, cooked some beetroots and marvelled at now far black currant can reach , when dropped by a small boy. In the interests of full disclosure, he did catch it on the way down, which minimised the collateral damage considerably.
After which we enjoyed a fun time making a parachute out of a carrier bag, some nuts, string and a pipe cleaner. There followed much hilarity as the boys tested it out of the window. There was a tense moment as 'little man' got stuck on the outside light but the wind freed him and we managed some great launches .
We took delivery of some canvases and more crayons. So the next day the boys decided to do some work. They chose the colours they wanted and we taped then to their canvases, before melting them with a hairdryer . Good job we put plenty of paper down...it was very messy. 4 days later I am still finding bits of melted crayons on the floor and table.
We saw a link for Www.Bighistory.com so we registered our details and completed stage 1 of the course. It's aimed at high school children, but the boys still got a lot out of it and it sparked some great discussions. Light years, stars, the sheer vastness of space and how we are all made of stars.
Owen started a discussion about what racism was. When I explained he still couldn't get his head round it. Mainly because he finds the concept so hard to grasp as it's very alien to him. I used the blue eye/ brown eye theory to explain. On saying what if someone said 'everyone with blue eyes was evil?'. Well, he says 'that's stupid because everyone knows that, when someone's evil their eyes turn red.' *chuckle*
This week so lots of problem solving using the logic game Winky Think. They are rattling through the levels and it's interesting watching, how each of them has a different approach to find a solution to the puzzles.
Sam got out his Lazer Maze box and worked through some of the problems on the cards. We played Three Little Pigs board game . Owen was struggling with his anxiety this week, mainly because we have been stuck in with no car and the weather has stopped us from cycling...I feared we would get blown off in the high winds and hail!
Sam and I played with the dogs in the garden when we could and on the Wii fit when it was too wild to go out. Owen spent more time doing quiet activities such as reading and tweaking his server on Minecraft. We also played a lot of the Dots 2 game and are stuck on a very tricky level.
The boys decided they wanted to make some Easter cards, so I printed templates off and we coloured them in and sent them to our family.
On Thursday Sam asked if he could make brownies, so we cracked on as soon as breakfast and my chores were done.
Afterwards Owen wanted to work on a couple of experiments from our science box. We made a water vortex and a diver. It took a while to get the right air/water ratio in the 'diver' we built but once it was sorted Owen enjoyed making it go up and down by squeezing the bottle. It decends on squeezing and floats back up when you let go.
I am very tired tonight and glad Blokey is home for the Bank holidays, he has hired a car so we can get out over the long weekend...*whoop* . He's been working very hard again lately so it's nice he can have a break from routine .
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