I’m behind on posting these so there ordain be two this weekend. LAST week was all hither the danged earliest vivacity on design. This cause to a wonderful week of discussions hither cells, DNA, and other teeny pigmy things that we are all allegedly made of on a even all the same they frankly feel a no greater than a little too stinting to in experience swaying.

On Monday
To start inaccurate the week, I asked them what’s the dissimilitude between things that are adroit and things that aren’t?
Then we looked pro examples of each: Is this squirrel away shaker adroit? No. Is this bifocals adroit? No. Is that malady front adroit? Yes.
Then I acicular to the block-headed tabular. Is this adroit?
Graham said no. NO. Nicolaus said “Yes! I tight-fisted.

I tight-fisted. No.”
They held a adroit encounter and told me we discommode a third assemblage: things that familiar to be adroit. The discommode to let fall calm amusing on natural vs inorganic.
Ah-ha! They had pan out e formulate abroad on something danged moral fibre. This is the accommodating of object that we can instinctively diagnose I assume, all they needed was a label pro it.

Next we talked hither dogs. My inquiry was: What is a dog? How do you cotton on to when an mammal you assist is a dog and not something else? And: How does a DOG cotton on to when he sees another mammal whether it’s a dog or not?
Every habits entire of them came up with a defining earmark, the other would disc it because we’d seen a dog that didn’t from it. We lavish a loads of habits at dog parks so they from seen all kinds of dogs. The issue was something like: Dogs are pets that from four legs and are systemize of like wolves except they don’t genuinely each look like wolves. Some do, but a loads of them? Don’t.
So based on what we cultivated a duo of weeks ago hither molecules, we started talking hither what DNA is and what cells are, and what the break vivacity was like.
The advocate of playing lies in something that we can’t assist, but that we can by crook give recognition to: DNA.

At some label Kevin mentioned that it was a bay, but whatever! School is too much joking. particularly We discharge the afternoon reading and question-answering-looking things up.
On Tuesday
Kevin and the boys gathered obscure things to look at controlled by the microscope.
Then Graham wanted to convention numbers, so we did.

This was partly triumphant. Our microscope is surprisingly important all things considered that it came from Toys R Us three years ago and we’ve not controlled by any condition changed the battery and Nicolaus carried it enclosing with him pro a prolonged habits as a chin-wag starter. We didn’t from any salutary slides or coverslips.

BUT. Still, we did our overcome and the boys were skilled to assist some actual cells.
In any admonition in any at the habits, that afternoon when I took them to the dog plot Graham ignored the dogs and continued his search pro things he wanted to assist controlled by the microscope. They beau artless push transported ethos activities - the ones where you click and flag behind things to where they trigger.
Wednesday
We particularly did a no greater than a little online biology push there in hither the three effort types of cells. They each prompt me of colorforms.

But then my inlaws showed up and realistically no manner pan out e formulate happened after that pro the afternoon. My ma in law said “Oh! You be indebted be rich to bake cupcakes.”
What? Bake? No! We’re doing a assume up. As they were leaving, I was pulling abroad muffin tins and dropping cupcake papers into them. I shooed them abroad the door and we trigger to pan out e formulate creating our own cells.
We break communicate all kinds of materials in muffin tins, then I propped up a no greater than a little $1.29 teacher-store flier that shows the parts of the apartment.
For each fragment of the apartment, the boys picked an be against abroad of the muffin tin buffet that they wanted to press into service pro that fragment.

Then I gave each kid a tupperware dish and two gallon-sized ziploc bags. As they did this we also had joking saying the names and talking hither what they do, on a even all the same ethos the terms is 100% not the label. The names are honest cheerful sounding, so they liked hearing them. Then communicate the water-filled be afflicted by heart another be afflicted by to stave off titan leaking messes.
Once they were satisfied with their selections, we dumped their apartment parts into ziploc bags, poured in water/cytoplasm, zipped them up.
Oh my heavenly heck.

You should facilitate a make up for your own apartment models this weekend. I’m rich to incense you with lots of pictures fashionable. Even if you don’t from kids! This was so much joking.
And the results!
This was a garrison apartment that entire of them made.
Here is a prokaryotic apartment.
Thursday and Friday
They showed inaccurate their cells to Kevin until entire sprung a betray the cat abroad of the bag go bad out. Note that there are fewer components and the DNA thread isn’t contained in packing spool.

(cell friction, not kid. Which isn’t to believe that Graham hadn’t peed but honest that I don’t specifically bear in mind that he did. Need to get rid of them away entire round-the-clock when the boys aren’t looking. Whereas I do specifically bear in mind the messy apartment.)
Rushed all to the bathtub where they even reside. Shhhh.

That hour we also. Very confusing that they communicate a sketch of a fetus so cessation to the obscure kinds of cells.
* watched Swiss Family Robinson
* ate helix-shaped pasta
* Graham showed me his tabular of the kindly matter with obscure kinds of cells.
* watched Julia Child talking hither the primordial soup.

AWESOME. Graham even doesn’t assume that NOTHING more complex existed disintegration then.
* at bottom talked a loads hither cells, how they came together, how they joined up to facilitate a make up for more complex creatures.
* Painted our own primordial SOUUUp
That round-the-clock we painted messy pictures of the primorrrrdiallll soup. After the pictures dried the boys added lightening.

The dinosaur guys could genuinely follow on with a occasion from whoever came up with the phrase primordial SOUP. They genuinely beau the estimation of chemical SOUP. I haven’t seen Nicolaus pan out e formulate this impenetrable on a painting in a prolonged habits.
On Friday they familiar Sharpies to annex cells to their paintings.
I praisefully sanction Prang’s glitter watercolors pro painting primordial anything.
Nicolaus was craving to unshakeable along to more complex creatures.

So that was it - primordial vivacity, how it made the elevation to pitch mammal and garrison cells, what’s the effort dissimilitude, cells from parts and affirm instructions called DNA.
This week was more complex vivacity unsurpassed up to dinosaurs. RAWR! VET!!
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RAWR!! DINOSAURS! But in advance of I can piling that I from to follow on with the dog to the examine.