More Whales!

We had a busy day today! This morning while Austin was eating breakfast, Kaitlynn was reading a chapter book, apparently it was about bears because she kept saying 'bear'.

Then we went downstairs to play. Kaitlynn worked on putting together a puzzle...

while Austin played with a paddleball.
They both read a book. Kaitlynn's book was about animals and Austin's book was about trucks.




Kaitlynn worked on her hammering skills...

and then she practiced putting coins in the piggy bank. We worked on our colors and putting a certain color in the bank at a time.
When Gavin got home from preschool, the babies were sleeping so we read more books about whales and the ocean. We watched lots of short videos of whales on YouTube and learned that when they jump out of the water and spin it's called 'breaching' and their tales fins are called 'flukes'

Then we did a science experiment with eggs to discover that salt water is more dense than regular water. We filled two cups with water and put salt in one of the cups (Gavin took a drink but immediately spit it out and told me he didn't like salt water!). We talked about density and then Gavin made his predictions about what would happen. He stuck a hard boiled egg in the regular water and it sunk (which was his prediction) and then he put an egg in the salt water and it floated (which was his prediction). Then we tried it with raw eggs to see what would happen and got the same results. We talked about how it is easier to float in the salt water and that probably helps the whales swim when they are so huge! Gavin did an excellent job and really enjoyed this activity! I have been wanting to do more science related activities but we seem to have been learning more about people lately.

Finally, we did a Jonah craft. Gavin drew Jonah in the whales belly and you can open the top whale to show Jonah in his belly!
Since I figured Kaitlynn wouldn't be drawing Jonah today, she colored the same whale template Gavin used and we turned hers into a little puppet! She colored her whale and then stuck it onto a popsicle stick.