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| In this hearing game, one kid (in the center of the circle) was dubbed "the listener". He had to close his eyes and then identify which friend in the circle was clapping. After he identified a few, he had to repeat the experiment with one ear covered. Without the use of both ears to hear, it was much tougher to identify the direction the clapping was coming from. We learned that our ears work in tandem. |
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| Holding our nose while tasting dried fruit to see how how sense of taste and smell work together (or in this case, don't work together!) to create what we call "flavor". |
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| Crafting paper thaumatropes. |
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| Crafting paper thaumatropes. |
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| The thaumatropes feature a bird on one disc and a birdcage on the opposite. When we spin the discs, our eyes are tricked into seeing an optical illusion: the bird is suddenly in the cage! |
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| We practicing throwing and catching with our eyes open, and then with one eye closed. Guess what? Our depth perception was affected and we missed more tosses with one eye shut! |
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| Kids tried to identity objects in the drawstring bag by touch only and no visual. |
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| A few book selections for the week. |
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| Jumping clothespin "click beetles". The clothespins make the same clicking noise and somersault motion that the beetles do! |
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| More click beetles! |
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| Working on weaving. |
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| Craft at Cuba. |
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| Craft at Ste. Genevieve. |
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| Finished spider webs (and teensy plastic spiders!) at Ironton. |
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| We finished up our Ironton session with puzzle fun! |
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| Even the littlest story timers can get strikes in kid-friendly color bowling! |
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| C'mon... c'mon... |
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| Working on story cubes at Fredericktown. |
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| At Steelville. |
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| At Bourbon. |
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| At Viburnum. |
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| Gathering before the program starts. |
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| Getting ready to make bowties (in keeping with Matt Smith's Doctor, who proclaims "bowties are cool".). |
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| Yep, they're cool :) |
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| And cooler still! |
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| The group also made paper cubee-style Tardises. |
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| A finished Tardis (in the perfect shade of blue). |
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| Check out the fez (if you're a Whovian, you get the reference!). |
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| A finished paper cup Dalek. This kid's an artist (and a superfan!). |
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| One lucky winner found a Doctor Who picture taped under her seat during a game of Unmusical Chairs- and earned some Doctor-approved metallic glitter slime! |
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| Posing in front of the Tardis with a finished project. |
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| More Tardis pictures. |
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| Dino's stickered-out guitar case! |
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| Music in the making. |
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| Getting ready to discuss Dark Life. |
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| Learning about the different ocean zones, which include the Sunlit, Twilight, Midnight, Abyss, and Trench zones. |
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| Sorting ocean animals into proper depth designations. |
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| Working on our luminescent jellyfish mobiles! |
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| They also work well as hats. |
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| Our bookish bunch at Ironton. |
