Bartholomew and the Oobleck

This week, we read the tale about the King of Didd who is bored of the same weather (snow, rain, sunshine and fog)  and asks the royal magicians to create something new to fall from the sky. 
Oobleck is the green sticky disaster that falls on the kingdom.

The lesson?   We all make mistakes.  Sometimes we make choices that have disastrous results, and the only thing to do is to "fix it".  We discussed different ways to fix mistakes. 

• Magic words like "I'm sorry"
• Take responsibility for our mistake
• replace or repair anything that got damaged

Then it was off to the kitchen to squish gooey Oobleck through our fingers.

We also did a weather experiment and made it rain.   Water in a jar, with a white cloud of shaving cream.  Add drops of food coloring moisture to the cloud, and then watch the colored "rain" fall from the clouds!   The kids had it raining rainbows!