Our local library has monthly themed activities geared towards homeschoolers, and if you're willing to trek to the different library branches around the metro area, you could attend a different program every week.
Last week, we learned about body germs as regards to sneezing and coughing, the general spread of them through bad hygiene. I suppose normally this would be appropriate for the height of flu season, but because of the mild winter and early spring, most people are suffering from allergies, not sickness. Then the kids made "snot", which was meant to be a reaction between borax and glue (in water), but was unsuccessful because the borax wasn't properly dissolved. I told the girls we could try again at home.
Some of BB's artwork, I particularly like the prancing posture of the ballerina.
This week, we met our ballet classmate Lily to learn about glue (different library branch). We learned big words like "adhesive" and "collagen"; how they used to make glue (by boiling the bones of animals to extract the bits of collagen); early examples of glue (like in caveman paintings and Egyptian mosaics); and then the kids made glue using milk, vinegar, and a coffee filter. A bit messy, there were a couple of accidents, and smelly, but otherwise successful.
