Pretty Pumpkins

Today we took a break from our usual Science Fridays with friends.  We are all crazy busy, so we just hung out at home and had a good homeschool day.

Zoe and I are working hard on numbers.  It's tough.  I found these stickers and she plopped in front of the numbers chart and put them in order.  We spent a long time talking about 7, 17, 70, and 71.  It wore us both out!

I got these Usborne Sticker Atlases on clearance this summer.  We put some of the Africa stickers on and talked about the different mountains, buildings, and people we saw.  It's a great book but a little over our heads at this point.

I decided to try the condensation experiment since we were on a roll this week.  We added water to jars and wiped the outside down to make sure it was dry...

Then we added ice and waited until water appeared on the sides of the jar!

We examined the tiny water drops and talked about where they came from.  Tough concept.  Zoe made the connection that it was because of the cold, but it's pretty abstract.

Really, this was the goal of the whole thing.  

We did learn the word condensation and that the water came from the air.

Just to be sure it wasn't leaking through the jar, we set a jar of pasta sauce out of the fridge 

and saw that it, too, had water on the outside!

Groan.  Two crafty days this week!  We have to bring decorated pumpkins to school on Monday.  Our first year, I thought it was a pain so we didn't do it and Zoe was the only kid with no pumpkin!  Zoe found a picture like this when we did our fall collage and wanted to try it.  We got $1 bunches from WalMart.  It was really easy and we love how it looks.

Lucy wanted a rainbow sparkle pumpkin.  Seriously, how nice am I?  

Needless to say, there are no pictures of this process.

By the time we were done, our shirts from yesterday were all dry!  We were very impressed!