we visited our friends on 111th street for a science lesson today, using their microscope. here my friend deborah is guiding chanda on how to prepare a slide while holding a little boy she takes care of. all of us enjoyed his company! ummm . . yes, he was a bit distracting for the girls! and for evan!
i mean, how could they resist that face? all they wanted to do was hold him.
but deborah and i were firm! prepare your slides children! she read to them about plant cells and animal cells from two different biology books she had (her oldest is at allegheny college).
chanda prepared a slide of carrot cells and after studying it under the microscope, drew and labeled her observations. deborah's book also pointed out the correct way of labeling and diagramming, which helped to clean up our sketches a bit!
evan enjoyed working on his drawing of human blood cells and frog blood cells.
morgana wrote about cork cells, and enjoyed getting more information from the biology book.
A lovely busy science day with friends and not a smelly formaldehyde lab in site! The sweet babe an added bonus too,no wonder you were all distracted!
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San xx