I woke up yesterday morning with a shake. Oklahoma has quite a few earthquakes. They tell us we always have, but they've become more noticeable over the last few years. This one didn't wake anyone but me and Chris.
It was on the news when Tamarin woke up so she started asking questions. We looked over USGS's map of current earthquakes.
I told her to give me her best confused look :)
I tried to explain plate tectonics simply, but despite my best efforts I couldn't bring it down to her level. While searching the internet for something on her level I found a few websites worth sharing though.
Plate Tectonics for older kids: Changing Earth: Plate Tectonics, Geography for Kids and Academic Kids. I opened up our Science Encyclopedia (which is no longer in print I guess, surprising I think it's a nice little encyclopedia) to the pages about the earth, volcanoes, plates, Pangaea, etc. Tamarin enjoyed looking through it. We left it at that.
Tornadoes
This morning we woke up talking about tornadoes. I cannot stand weather sooth-sayers on tv, but you can't help but listen to them a little bit. I wonder at what point will they realize you call wolf enough times people will eventually quit listening and end up seriously injured because of it.
We've discussed tornadoes a lot over the last two weeks since we've been talking weather, but today I pulled up some tornado videos. Tamarin thinks storm chasers are crazy :)
We finally did our tornado in a bottle! It was more difficult that it should have been, but my washer was too small and the duct tape couldn't get a good seal.... ergh. In the end I did get it to do what it was supposed to and they thought it was hilarious!
Privacy
When I started this blog I didn't think anyone would actually look at it. I figured some of my friends and homeschool peeps might look at it once in a while. Over the last few weeks I have seen a lot of traffic from places I would not have expected and overall hits are way up. Suddenly my little blog feels like a camera and I've been caught on the loo. I like being honest. I like telling you the good and crappy side of homeschooling and life with a bunch of kids and animals, but privacy has moved to the front of my mind.
I've gone back and changed the names of my kids to types of monkeys, sticking with the monkeys in the country title.
My oldest is now Tamarin
Second is Lemur
Third is Howler
Fourth is Capuchin
If you notice places I have missed a name please let me know. I will also be deleting comments this week where friends have used their real names. Please feel free to re-comment (or comment to begin with! I love seeing comments!) with the girls' fake names :)
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