She started with Newton's Forces of Motion, perfectly illustrated here...
An object will remain at rest or will continue moving at a constant speed unless other forces act on it:
Any action will have an equal and opposite reaction:
An object will go faster or father the greater the amount of force is applied to it (the F=ma one, for kids without any of those concepts!):
They they then put this to the test at the end of the day with two glorious experiments which they were so excited for they waited until I was down from working (and also so I could help handle Oshin throughout the danger!)...
Firing their stomp-rocket at an Orry-made target:
And setting off exploding film-canister rockets:
... It's good having a former Science Museum Explainer as a mum!
Besides that obvious highlight, here is Orry posing for a picture in response to a post on Facebook from a dad of one of his friends asking how everyone was getting on (inclusive of the 'Minecraft' love heart he wanted imposed on the picture!):
Here is Oshin admiring himself in the camera as it records him (he is mostly distracted by what is behind him actually being in front of him in the screen):
Following on from Finn's enjoying watching a BBC Geography programme about map-reading the other day, I created a task for them that required them to read map co-ordinates in order to find the letters to spell words:
It was a little too hard for them, as it required divisions of the map squares, but Cori got them through it, and they were eventually delighted to uncover the words, especially selected for Orry's level of loveliness & humour!
Today both Cori and I had Zoom chats/meetings - she about the Celtic Gathering planned for July, and me the weekly Manx conversation. We should both be doing a Manx lesson, but the timings are now impossible by the kids' bedtimes, so that has dropped off the agenda since we've been confined. Shame, but everything is in flux, and I'm confident that we'll find a new normal way to get back into it in the next week or so.
As a part of our Max conversation group, we have a chat going as well, where we message in Manx, to keep our hand in, which is useful.
Today was the first real day of rain since our isolation - a good day to be in with tea:
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