Today was a super-fun, super-sciency (that's a word, right?) sort of day. After her regular school work, we experimented with the effects of baking soda on different liquids and recorded our observations. In most cases, the baking soda caused changes that resulted in carbon dioxide gas bubbles fizzing or foaming.
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| Materials ready for Fizzing Foam Science Experiment |
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| Recording data after observing reactions |
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| Adding baking soda to vinegar/soap mixture |
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| Foamy fun! |
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| Ahhh!! Look what happened! |
After that, we went to a local park and my daughter sketched and painted things into her nature journal. We use the nature journal to appreciate the beauty in the things that God made and then we go home, research them and learn more about them (growth, eating habits, habitat, properties, etc.). On the way there, she wanted to sketch some cows eating in a field. So we made a quick pit-stop.
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| Sketching cows |
Once we reached the lake in the park, she decided to do the lake in watercolors. As she worked, I read to her from a beautiful poetry collection called A Child's Book of Poems. She really liked "Wynkin, Blynkin, and Nod" so we read that one several times.
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| working in her nature journal |
We ended the afternoon with a long nature walk along the boardwalk. It was such a relaxing day. We both really enjoyed every bit of it!
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| holding her bag of nature walk treasures |
