Our week started out with a very nice Father’s Day, before we had to say goodbye to Grandpa as he left for a business trip. While we didn’t want him to go, and knew we would miss him, we were also very excited for a visit from Uncle T.J. and his girl friend. Selena spent the first day and evening playing, talking and reading to both T.J. and Marie. Marie is studying to be a teacher and she tried to tell Kristi if she would work hard through the summer on her hand writing she could end up skipping Kindergarten and going into First grade. I am not sure that would be a bad thing but I am also not sure it would be a good thing either.
We also decided to play around with some carnations. Selena wanted to turn a white carnation into a blue one, like she had seen in the blog world.
We purchased a white carnation and I put it in a vase with blue food coloring in it. Then we waited to see what would happen. In the meantime Selena was sure we could turn a yellow carnation green by doing the same thing. One more trip to the store to purchase a yellow carnation and we were off to see what would happen.
Our end results:
Selena was a little surprised that the yellow carnation turned blue instead of green, which has opened up a whole new box of questions that we will have to investigate. I really wanted to dig in deeper with this during the process, but with all the activities of the week, we just didn’t get back to our investigations.
The carnation demonstration is a favorite!
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing that the yellow didn't mix with the blue, so it didn't get a chance to turn green. That would be my guess.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great week for Selena. I don't think that it would make sense for her to skip K though, as she needs to get used to a different structure. It took Anna a few months to figure out expectations and the whole school routine.
ReplyDeleteI have yet to do that carnation experiment with the kids. I have to make a point to do it soon. I think I agree with Natalie about skipping Kindergarten. So much of the school year is about adjusting to school.
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