Train tracks, playdough and Science Club

In October we started Science club. Since I am playing catch up with these posts I’ll just include all the detail here. I have been involved in the organising, I usually host one of the experiment stations. We did miss a week as we were sick with gastro and so needed to avoid social settings. We have been focussing n chemistry. Alex has been getting really involved and ikes the hands-on side to it. There’s little in the way of ‘teaching’, just some explanation about what is going on in their experiment. Each night Alex has explained to vio what he has done, and it’s great that they get to bring something home to prompt discussion and explain. I think we’ll continue into 2016.

We have been building ALOT of train tracks these past few weeks. Daniel is also enjoying them. Alex has gotten upset at this a few times and asks me to rebuild them, so we decided to take pictures of each track with his iPad and store them to help us rebuild at any time.

I spotted this cool little gadget at Aldi – a battery tester. Alex is often going to the drawer for new batteries (we go through so many) so I thought it would be interesting for us to see if the batteries we are replacing are really dead. There are a series of lights that change depending on the level of energy left in the battery. Alex has gone back to use it a few times, but the first time we used it we checked all of the batteries we had put aside for recycling so it’s been a great little tool.

We’ve also been playing with a lot of playdough, and have gone through much of it as it gets left out and goes hard! I’m trying to make my own rather than buy it too. daniel is now rolling it and manipulating the tools very capably. Alex often comes over and makes a snake of course.