We just completed Packet 1 (our first 5 weeks of school). We had our conference on Thursday and Friday was our first field trip of the year. We visited the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park. We had a great time at the Tinkering Exhibit and learning about conserving electricity at the So Watt? exhibit. Some highlights of the day
Justin pedals the rope-spitting bicycle. Very cool!
Keva blocks... these are amazing. You can build anything with them. Precision cut planks, perfectly balanced. Justin was enthralled. The boys were very excited to get the tower all the way up to the pipe in the ceiling above. Justin started this one, but had to enlist Jared's help when it got too tall for him to reach the top.
Grace works on a giant marble run. It was fun to see how many different sounds you could get the marble to make by using different materials
Other highlights:
- The shadow booth- freeze your shadow on the wall. Really cool!
- Paper airplane launcher
- pin ball machine- you move around the obstacles to make your own pin ball maze.
- video recorder that plays your actions back in fast and slow-motion, and backwards. It was really fun to watch
- And much, much, more... Kids are free till September 26th.
We also had the pleasure of hanging out with one of Grace's friends from TCA C'lectives. And after they headed off for lunch, The Lopez clan showed up and we had fun with them for a while.
1 comment:
I like the name of the "So Watt"' exhibit! That looked like fun... too bad I was in school and couldn't go!
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