some pictures and a funny

Mariah is off on another learning excursion today. Her class is at the Brookfield Zoo for about 5 hours today. Last week they went to the Shedd Aquarium and also took in a play of Aesop's fables. A couple weeks ago they went to the Museum of Science and Industry to find and learn about simple machines. And somehow or other she got to see a pumpkin dropped from 3 stories up -- fun! Other things that she keeps busy with at school are pictured below.


All of the kids get to ride bicycles in an unfinished space at school. What an excellent way to learn about simple machines!

The class birds Lemon Lime and Bluebell. They also recently got a fish and are hopefully going to get 21 pets that eat their garbage (food scraps)....they have guessed goats, pigs, etc.... :)

One day when we were at school we heard some singing coming from Mariah's classroom...."we're making marmalade, we're making marmalade....."so we had to peak in and sure enough, that's exactly what they were doing. They had been reading about Padington Bear who loves marmalade so they tried it -- here Mariah is adding adding a bit of water to the pot.Finally it's done! I don't think they quite knew what to think about it, but they all tried it.

A few days ago at lunch, Allison and I got talking about mouths and she was wondering how come her and Mariah and Rachel all had tiny mouths. I just said it was because her head was tiny. So I asked her what she thought it would be like to have a big mought (the adult in me figured that maybe she would think it would look funny to have a big mouth in a tiny head) but her more pressing thought was "If I had a big mouth, I would be able to eat a whole chip!" Ahh....the way the brain works...