science for tinies: wrecking ball

[psocoptera]

Project: Can We Knock It Down?
Materials: Playground ball, rope, milk carton blocks, ring, tape.
Explanatory details: From here. Hang ball from rope as pendulum in doorway, use to knock over blocks.
How did it go: Junie was not into this. She wanted to hold the ball and push it into the blocks to knock them down; the idea of letting it swing seemed to be beyond her, or totally unappealing, hard to tell which.
Things we talked about: We really didn't get beyond me trying to demo the idea of letting it swing and her grabbing it away.
What Junie got out of it: She got really upset when I started setting up blocks and it wasn't to build her things on demand...

We've been doing a lot of No Time For Flash Cards-inspired letter art lately, maybe I'll get a post up about that at some point.

Comments

experiments

[eastgategirl.livejournal.com]

It's fascinating to me that your experiments sometimes work out more or less as expected but that sometimes, and generally inexplicably, Junie either isn't interested or wants to take things in an entirely different direction. Reading your accounts of the activities makes me admire your creativity and your patience and makes me wish that I were a fly on the wall...