Otherwise, Jesse and Stephanie came to visit (pics to come in another post) and the rest is same old same old.
Here we are working on a science lesson of Zak's. He's been learning a bit more in depth about dinosaurs, fossils, paleontologists and excavations. We did a couple excavations of our own. One with Play-doh and one with chocolate chip cookies. They had to build the layers of rock (Play-doh) and add fossils to dig up later (mostly pasta).
First layer of 'rock' and embedded fossils:
Next:
Cheez-Its:
I cut it so they both got a piece to work on:
Zak starts
Charlie
A fossil impression!
And Charlie reasoned that if a we were removing dinosaur pieces, a whole creature must of have expired here, so she put it back..together.....
LOL, ......yeah. Abstract lol
After lunch we started a 'cookie excavation'. Our favorite kind.....
The point is to remove the chocolate chips gently by chipping away at the crumbly cookie, which is similar to chipping away dirt and rocks from fossils? Sure it's a stretch, but the cookies were good and it was fun :)
One or two cookies later and it was just time to eat them LOL
Don't miss tomorrows' update........... Someone here looks VERY different!
I cut it so they both got a piece to work on:
Zak starts
Charlie
A fossil impression!
And Charlie reasoned that if a we were removing dinosaur pieces, a whole creature must of have expired here, so she put it back..together.....
LOL, ......yeah. Abstract lol
After lunch we started a 'cookie excavation'. Our favorite kind.....
The point is to remove the chocolate chips gently by chipping away at the crumbly cookie, which is similar to chipping away dirt and rocks from fossils? Sure it's a stretch, but the cookies were good and it was fun :)
One or two cookies later and it was just time to eat them LOL
Don't miss tomorrows' update........... Someone here looks VERY different!
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