Science Playground?

The St. Louis Science Center has an outdoor park that we don’t normally utilize.  It was beautiful weather when we went downtown for some free Ben & Jerry’s, so we spent some time outdoors…learning.

What can $.90, plus tax, buy 3 boys?

An hour of fun!

Thank you, Michaels clearance rack!

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It's All Relative

The kids were pretending to be scientists today and calling themselves Dr. Einstein, Professor Einstein, and Baby Einstein.  I asked them if they knew who Einstein was and they knew that he was a scientist.  This started us on a quest to find out some more information.  We discovered a nice article for kids about Einstein and the theory of relativity.  Joshua really seemed to latch onto the example of an infinitely tall building in which you are in the elevator  falling.  It doesn't feel like you are falling at all, but if people saw you from the outside, they would see you falling.  If you saw them, they would look like they are flying up.  It seemed like things were really clicking with the boys and how it all depends on perspective.  Brian then stated, "It's like when stuffed animals come to life."  Oh well.  I guess that is one perspective.