I officially
love The Magic Schoolbus series that we’ve been watching on a morning on Pop lately. As I was hanging out the clothes this morning I was saying to Alex that the sun would help the clothes dry and she said ‘and the wind. Because the water goes into the air and I know that is called evaporation’. My job here is done. Must go into Magna again and look at the (pretty rubbish) water cycle model.
The Titanic Research Guide from the Magic Tree House arrived this morning too. When I first saw them I figured they’d be like activity lessons and stuff but they’re not, they’re like a non-fiction book written at the same level as the story books so kids can read them themselves. I read through it this morning showing the kids some bits of it and I thought it was really good. Made me cry though!
Marcus read the 4th book in his reading challenge, this one was a bit tricky for him and it was a bad time. We were both stressed and too hot. But he did it and we went back to the library to get the 2nd set of stickers and fridge magnet. 2 more to go. While out doing library run M was asking lots more questions about Titanic and Rose and Jack from the film. He’s struggling to remember they weren’t actually real even though the story is real. Also did some maths questions while walking. Mostly car related like ‘ if you are going 5 miles and hour and had go twice as fast how fast would you be going?’ Seems to be working well.
And then when we got home Alex made herself a floating experiment with some berries. Autonomous learning!
I’ve loads of housework to do now so will get on with it, having an afternoon off from the kids tomorrow and can’t wait!
looking forward to it to
Comment by Jax — August 6, 2007 @ 7:21 pm
We like magic school bus too!
Comment by t-bird — August 6, 2007 @ 8:33 pm
Love MSB too. You can get lots of PC games by them - various field trips. We have about 5.
Comment by Alison — August 7, 2007 @ 10:31 pm