Making Rainbows and Thunder!

It was a painting day for all the children except for Isaac! I let Elijah paint after he finished his lessons with sounds and counting. What is it about painting and children? Elijah waited patiently for me to give him the paint and then just sort of let out a sigh of contentment when he dipped that brush into the paint and started in painting. The older children's artwork was made by applying painters tape to their paper and then painting the entire background. Then when the paint was dry they peeled the tape away to see the image that didn't have paint on it due to the tape. They all had fun. Then after that Graham got busy on his first "real" day of experiments. He is keeping a weather chart...charting high and low temps, precipitation, and barometric pressure each day. Then on Mondays and Tuesdays when he has his "experiment school time" over here we do other fun activities. Today after he defined "weather," "meteorology," and "physics" on notecards, he did an experiment that helps to explain how the sound of thunder gets to our ears by blowing up a bag and then popping it. This experiment had a very good, fairly simple explanation of how sound travels and how and why thunder happens. We also printed off a special cloud identifier that we will work with next week. At the moment we are studying weather and will go in whatever direction his inquiring mind tends to lead us! After Graham finished his experiment time, the girls joined him for a picnic lunch on our kitchen floor. Graham got a new insulated lunch bag yesterday and they decided that it would be fun to bring their lunches over here! Fun was had by all...I do believe!

After all the morning fun, I headed off to get my hair cut. Woody has read, played Scrabble, worked his daily crossword puzzle, watched a bit of TV, checked out how his seedlings are doing and then late this afternoon he walked to the prayer room at church. Now we are both settling in for a relaxing evening.