Discoveries

Nathan was standing in the lounge this afternoon chatting to me while swinging a heavy glass-bead necklace horizontal to the ground around in a circle. He then questioned why the necklace rose up as it swung faster. Hmmm, my dodgy physics knowledge was challenged while I muttered that I thought it was because of centrifugal force. I got so hung up on wanting to label it that I missed the opportunity to just answer the question and note our observations (speed, weight, force etc) which would have likely met his need at the time. He wasn't interested in finding out more at that time, but I'm continuing on with my education right now lol. (feel free to confirm or deny this!)

We also received a bit of flint in the post today for our emergency kit (also of interest to Nathan since the boy in our latest book (My Side of the Mountain) uses it to light his camp fires), so after trying it out he asked further about what it was and why it made the sparks.

Today also had him continuing on with asking a variety of questions about Early Man, helping snip up lengths of branches in the garden for our mulch/compost/firewood, visiting with a friend, doing some grocery shopping for playcentre, writing a list of what we achieved today and what things we still needed to do (complete with ticks and crosses), helped prepare veges for dinner, watched a DVD and had a bit of time on the computer with a reading CD-rom.