The question was “what can I do?” so in a fit of enthusiasm, I sent her off to the bookshelf to grab The Big book of experiments (£6 in a cheapo store some time ago), and we leafed through it. Ended up doing two – one about air that involved a balloon, string, sellotape and a straw, and the other to make rain – kitchen hob, pan of boiling water.
Dd was thrilled with them both, and we’re going to write about them later – and I’ve got something to talk to my sister about tomorrow too!
Also, she seemed to get the ideas behind them pretty well – air goes into the balloon, and when you let go it gets squeezed out “explodes” was how she put it, and pushes the balloon along the string. Watching the rain form on the inside of the pan lid went down very well as well – given that that was yesterdays question. I’m pondering a weather chart so that we can do some recording skills as well – maybe try to get hold off a cheap wall chart that we can put some notes on every day? Or perhaps just put it into our big desk diary, that would probably work too.
Oh, I feel so very virtuous now! lol
