'15/16 Week 10 Day 3

We had a lot of hands-on activities to do in Saara's science class. Her lesson was about skin. Among other things she learned how it stretches and that skin grooves and ridges on her fingertips are uniquely hers. We used some ink to make fingerprints and then the kids compared the prints and found how different indeed they were.

Science. The caterpillar I drew on the inside of Saara's elbow shows how our skin stretches. Here's the caterpillar all stretched out ...

... and here all squished up.

Almost like at the police station, I think. The kids making the fingerprints.

Andrew comparing his and Saara's fingerprints.

Andrew learned about how the light bulb was invented.

We also finished our studies of this book. It was most interesting.

Geography. The last class of the day taught Saara a lot of new names. Almost all of them ended with '-stan'. It took her a while to to get the pronunciation of the different countries correct.

Park Day! We made it, and I am glad we did because the rain in the forecast is going to rob us from outdoor play for a few days now.