As I mentioned a couple of blog entries ago, I was sick with the flu recently. Well, the boys ended up doing most of their work that week. I was still suffering from a lack of energy last week and a few of the boys had bad coughs and colds, so I thought I would put that down as a sick week. We could take our time to recover, I could catch up around the house and we could rug up, stay inside and enjoy the lovely fire.
Of course, with a bit of free time, the boys can be wondering what to do with themselves. We did play a couple of boardgames, just to help pass the time and to make sure hands didn’t stay too idle. Zac also found something else that he wanted to do. He found a box in the bookshelf that said "Science View".
As you can see from the picture below (if you are on the blog site), the boys wanted to create a volcanic eruption.
Needing only dirt, baking soda, white vinegar and food dye, we could manage this easily.
Mark, being an inquisitive 4 year old, was right there to watch the action…the other boys joined in too.
As the vinegar interacted with the baking soda, the eruption happened.
It worked well, the boys enjoyed spending time on it and didn’t even complain about having to clean up the mess after them! They thought it was so good that they wanted to use up all of my kitchen supplies, repeating this experiment over and over.
What I loved about this was that the initiative came from them. They didn’t see this experiment as "work" but something interesting to try.
Yes, they still had their squabbles in this "sick week" and we had to deal with those – I am not trying to present a rose-coloured view of life at our house. However, the boys have a desire to discover and to learn new things, regardless of whether it is "school" time or not and that is why I wanted to share this experience.
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