Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19th. While it is fun to try to talk out of the side of your mouth and say “Arrgh”, there is so many more things your children can do to celebrate. Below you are going to find a number of activities and crafts that would be fun to do on Talk Like a Pirate Day. The collection has activities for children young and old. I think it will be hard to decide which activities you want to do first. Learning More About Pirates Before you start one or many of the activities in this collection, you may want to read your children a book about pirates. Below you will find some of my...
This chemistry activity for kids puts an artistic and colorful twist on the traditional baking soda and vinegar combination. While completing this chemistry activity, students will learn and observe how: A liquid and solid mix to change the properties of the solid A liquid and solid mix to create a gas The primary colors of red, yellow, and blue can be mixed to make new colors (orange, green) We designed and tested this activity with preschool and elementary ages, but honestly, we all had fun creating our pumpkin patches. I highly recommend you have your children wear gloves when handling the food coloring. Our four-year-old twins LOVE mixing colors, but what a mess food coloring makes. We did find that...
Boswell bestsellers for week ending September 11, 2021Hardcover Fiction:1. Beautiful World, Where Are You?, by Sally Rooney2. Matrix, by Lauren Groff3. The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All, by Josh Ritter (another debut)4. The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig5. The Madness of Crowds, by Louise Penny6. The Magician, by Colm Toíbín (another debut)7. We Were Never Here, by Andrea Bartz8. In the Middle of Others, by Leila Slimani9. The Nature of Middle Earth, by JRR Tolkin10. The Heron's Cry, by Ann Cleeves (another debut) Five debuts in hardcover fiction this week in our top 10. This is where the action is. Topping the newcomers is Sally Rooney's third novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You? It's unusual to see a publisher...
Things I never thought I would write in an article about #126: Apparently, beards are an evolutionary trait confirming the enhanced fighting performance and thus an indicator of masculinity and social dominance. Hey, don’t look at me. Send your questions to the trio of scientists in America who studied how beards may protect the face during fisty-cuffs. And they won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize for their research. Worth it? Totally worth it. What Is the Ig Nobel Prize? Let’s start with a big thank you to the scientific humor magazine, Annals of Improbable Research. In 1991, editor and co-founder Marc Abrahams created the prize as a critical yet genuine acknowledgment of scientific research that is both unusual and funny....
By Mike Cummings-Yale The new study in the journal Autism Research is the first to test anecdotal evidence that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), like most youngsters, pay attention to puppets. In a series of experiments, researchers examined the visual attention patterns of young children with ASD, alongside a control group of typically developing children, in response to a video depicting a lively interaction between Violet, a brightly colored puppet, and a human counterpart. The researchers found that the attention patterns of children with ASD were similar to those of children in the control group when Violet spoke, with both sets of children spending a similar proportion of time watching her face and exhibiting a strong preference for the...
