where the soybeans roam: July 2007

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Tuesday24July2007: working on the tepee

Monday23July2007:in the backyard

backyard experiment- klara's design: does the ladybird beetle larva like green or red aphids better?

example of "stuff" that accumulates in the backyard through the day" (note the pippi hair -any guesses who "visited" our house today?)

Sunday22July2007: Lake Michigan

Saturday21stJuly:Trip TO Warren Dunes, MI

Illinois is flat....

...but the sky is real purty

Jumping in the "waves" of Lake Michigan

Saturday, July 21, 2007

easy peasy! you just need baking soda, vinegar, playdough or clay ), a piece of cardboard, pen/pencil, dishtowel.
(1) place little container on cardboard.
(2) add baking soda. pour on vinegar (not too much!) and let it flow.
(3)use pen to draw a line around the flow.
(4)wipe up with dishtowel.
(5) fill in the lava flow area with playdough -a new color for each successive layer (we did not have enough of each color so instead used "color groups" for each new layer of earth formed.
(6) repeat steps 2-5 as many times as you would like
have fun!