Boylee Begged...

...for one more week of science camp. So, this week:

BUSTING MYTHS WITH COOL SCIENCE!
Mission: to bust or affirm some science myths and uncover the cool truth! You’ll receive a new crazy myth to test each day, You will discover and dissect science oddities like air-powered cannons, crazy catapult chuckers, electric lightening you can hold in your hand and more. Things are going to get crazy, our crash test dummy is ready.. are you?


After lunch, join the Extreme Team and dig into your Pop-Sci Inventor Box, feel the power of your beating heart, make a bubble as big as you, turn your room into a lazer light rock party. In this awesome program, you’ll not just invent, but create a commercial to sell your wacky, wild, or brilliant idea to the whole camp! Who knows? You might have the best invention yet!

Science Concepts Include: magnetism, human anatomy, electric circuits, light & lenses, sound vibration, air is matter, air pressure, cardinal directions, compass and more!

The Last Week of Camp

G FORCE ROCKETS & MOON BLASTERS!

To the moon and back, Jack! In this exciting new program, you’ll assemble your very own rocket that will leave the launch pad at over 300 miles per hour on a mock mission to the moon. You can transform your room into a planetarium, experience comet cooking and journey to our power house of energy - the sun!

After lunch, you’ll discover Newton’s laws of motion with things that fly, float, rev, and race. Assemble your own electric powered UFO launcher and fly airplanes in the wildest camp air show ever! Then, the Moon Mission continues as you build and race your very own solar powered moon buggy. This is one camp experience that is truly out of this world!

Science Concepts Include: Prinicpal of flight – gravity, thrust, drag, Bernoulli’s Principal, centripital motion, anatomy of the sun, solar energy, planets and more!

Think Blue!

Science Update

This polymer concoction is supposed to look like crushed ice: success!


Growing crystals: success!

Today's Fun: Science Projects!

Someone gave Boylee a science kit for his b-day and we finally opened it up...

An overview of our projects:

These are ghost crystals. They're visible when they're above water, and almost invisible below it. (They're actually much less visible in real life.)

Homemade super-bouncy balls! We packed polymers into molds, dipped the molds into water in a precise manner and voila!

More water-absorbing polymers. These will keep growing, I think.

And this is just the start of crystals growing. We'll check back in 24 hours.

Scenes from a Nature Walk, Most Pix by Boylee

Why He Stayed Up Until 11 Last Night

We watched it on PBS, live from Lincoln Center. Boylee was very interested in the "live" aspect -- okay, let's ignore the fact that it was live for the east coast -- and had lots of questions. He was quite intrigued to recognize the exterior of the theater, and the interior, and the unique orchestra pit with the stage that slides back and forth to cover or reveal it.

We spent several minutes talking about the various actors -- who we had seen at our performance, and which actors were different. (They were almost all the same, but a different Nellie and Luther. But we recognized the guy who had played our Luther. He was in a different role last night.)

Later, Boylee seemed to lose interest -- he got very involved with some legos, and sat down on the floor. But it didn't take me long to see that he was actually paying very close attention, commenting on plot points and singing/humming along with the music...while playing with legos.

When Paolo Szot sang, "Once you have found her, never let her go," Boylee came and gave me a hug and kiss and said, "I will never let you go."

!!!!!!!!!!!!

OY to the VEY

Got the new car this morning!

Got home!

Went back out to the car a couple of hours later...and it was entirely dead. Got a jump from AAA, came back to the dealership, and now I'm waiting for a new battery. And then there's the matter of the random fuse I found in the glove compartment...

The Team

Tomorrow

Keeping It Real

Here's what I did during the six hours when Boylee was in camp yesterday:

Went to Trader Joe's.
Went to the post office.
Got talked into being "the facebook person" for our school
Scanned, printed and faxed some financial info for the mortgage guy (we're refinancing)
Scheduled our appraisal
Found out there's a lien on our house. What? A LIEN? A freaking tax lien??
Called my accountant.
Called the state tax board, found out they say there's no lien
Sent several frantic emails to the mortgage guy
Finally heard that the lien was a mistake and was meant for someone named "Husband'sLastName Husband'sFirstName"
Tried and failed to install new wireless modem
Waited on hold @ Apple. Hung up
Went and got the car smog checked
Waited on hold @ Apple. Hung up
Dealt with the car registration
Waited on hold @ Apple. Finally got through and learned what went wrong
Scheduled the purchase of the new car, dealt with the paperwork
Picked up the boy

Then:
As soon as Husband got home, went to Radio Shack to buy a certain cable
Spent the evening fixing the wireless connection

Ready for Pirate Day at Camp

This Week's Camp is...

FIZZ! BANG! POP! FLASH!
Are you ready to mix up some wild wacky science magic? Each day we will uncover some of magic’s science secrets by doing our own experiments. Watch out as exploding capsules BANG! and water that turns into instant lights FLASH! Mix powders that FIZZ and invent a new soda POP! Our morning includes: atomic glow slime, color changing flowers, disappearing money, and mirrors that let you see things that are not really there. Using your very own incredible bizarre Science Magic bag of fun you can become a science wizard and wow your friends and family with cool experiments at home.


After lunch, learn about a plant that can survive over 50 years without water, make a mini rainbow of crystals in a test tube, make a UFO fly, and so much more! You’ll have to see it to believe it! You hold the answers to all the science secrets. Share if you dare!


Science Concepts Include: biology, types of matter, chemical reactions, polymers, air pressure, optical illusions, centripetal motion, and much much more!

Almost...

A Little Project

Framing some of Boylee's artistic creations.