We had a really fun winter break, but it was finally time to get back to homeschool.
We are studying paleontology in science this year. One of the topics this week was dinosaur egg fossils. A fun activity that the curriculum suggested after the egg lesson was to do an egg drop.
I gave them a day to come up with their ideas for the drop. It was really fun that both girls came up with completely different ways to approach this assignment.
Madeline went first. I had them drop them from the top of the stairs, over the ledge into the hallway below.
Madeline hoping for the best....
I was pretty sure that Maddy's egg would be just fine with how packed inside so many layers of blankets it was.
She had the egg nestled in many layers of blankets, towels, and a pillow....
The egg was finally surrounded by wet toilet paper. She unwrapped it carefully, and we found that the egg was just fine!
Abi went with making a hot air balloon/ parachute. She created the basket with popsicle sticks, wrapped the egg in dry toilet paper and put it in a sock, and then placed the sock on the basket. She put tape just over the sock so that when it was dropping and would lift a bit, the tape would keep it in the basket. The basket was attached to a garbage bag with yarn.
It fell fast and hit the ground hard! We were all expecting the egg to be harmed.
But it survived!!
We also played a fossil battleship game after talking about the "fossil wars".
Another fun activity was that for our speech course they had to come up with a poem or speech (famous or one that they wrote) that they could present together. It had to have three parts: one for Maddy, one for Abi, and one that they would have to say together. Maddy ended up writing the poem, and they used stick puppets that they made a few months ago for a different presentation to represent the different characters speaking in the poem. They did a great job, and Maddy's poem was really well written and creative.
It was a good week and I'm glad to be back in our routine.
