February Science Fun (and a few other things)

A quick overview of some of the fun stuff we do here at Casa Burns for school.

Gavin selects the appropriate day of the week sign and posts it. The kids helped decorate them (and the wall too, as you can see. Apparently dry erase marker is only erasable if it is on the dry erase board.)


Gavin is learning to read, so he helps make some of his own flash cards. We use these to make silly sentences and help him learn new words.


Gwydion is preparing materials for our melting point experiment: ice, milk chocolate and crayon.

As you can tell, he's very excited. We didn't have a thermometer fancy enough to accurately measure the temperature so we estimated time instead. Given roughly equal amounts of ingredients and a constant temperature, his hypothesis was that the ice would melt first, the chocolate next and the crayon last.

Melting chocolate. It made us all hungry. Yum.

Melting crayon bits. Stinky, in case you wondered.

End results: Gwydion's hypothesis was correct. We also made some chocolates (eaten before the photo) and some neat crayon shapes.

Silly Gavin shows off a puzzle he completed on his own.

Since Gwydion finished The Magic Tree House: Night Under the Volcano a few days ago, we decided to see if we could build our own.

Gwydion helps mix the ingredients.

And pours them on top of the baking soda.

Foamy 'lava' boiled out.

Gwydion the Scientist is very proud of himself.