after leaving the park, we went to pick up a screen door my husband found on craigslist, and these people had real live cows just hanging out on their front porch. hollis petted one, heard him/her mooooooo, and almost had his shoe eaten. i was SO excited for him! biology, social studies
today we went to the museum of nature and science. we took the train there. hollis ummm pretty much hated the train. required to sit still and yet not strapped in....sigh. but once we were there, it was better. he pretty much darted through the exhibits designed for older kids, but once we got to the 6-and-under set, he was enthralled. i think the most awesome part was that they had a whole farm exhibit, which incorporated a lovely lesson on social studies along with the obvious biology and even some horticulture. mostly hollis ran around gathering wooden eggs and styrofoam fruits and veggies and throwing them at the other kids. he just learned how to throw last month so he's been honing his skills. they also had this huge water table area, and a sand table....that's physics, right? they had a whole backyard exhibit with real live creepy crawlies in cages, and last but not least....they had a fire truck climbing structure with slides. so he got to practice climbing and sliding, but he also got to wear a fireman hat and "drive" the fire truck. so in conjunction with our study on farm animals, i'm considering beginning a unit on community helpers! to top it all off, we dropped by the gift shop before leaving and got him a super awesome farm animals place mat :) :) :)
here are some pics from today...
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