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Sep. 6, 2007
MOH Week 1- Creation: Invent An Animal
We are doing volume 1 of Mystery of History this year. I already know we're going to love it. We're finishing up our first week and last night (yes, night-I was in recovery mode after the tea party) we did one of the activities. The children were to invent an animal, give it a name and describe it a little. They had a blast and the results were.... interesting. Disturbing? Puzzling. No, really, they did good!
Meet Squishypond, created by Millie, age 4.
 Even though I'm doing Sonlight's Preschool program with Millie, she wanted to participate in this activity. According to Millie, Squishypond "gets squished and he jumps in the pond. He's wet and he says hi to friends. He eats pond. Actually, that's kind of his drink. He eats grass."
Wiggly-Biggly
This is Gabe's (6). Here's what he had to say about it, "This is a Wiggly-Biggly. It eats mostly goldfish and catfish. If it's very hungry- a cat, and if it's starving, a person. It can grow and shrink quickly. It has 1 predator: people. He's caught Little Squishy, the fish." (see little blurred blob by his top yellow arm)
Another view of Wiggly-Biggly.
And now I'd like to introduce you to Googly Moogly. And if I could write that name exactly the way Gracie (almost 8!) did, you would see the 4 o's had eyeballs just like her creation.
And wait! Before this creature scares you away, let me explain. That protrusion, according to its creator, is its mouth. Here's what she wrote about it, "This is Googly Moogly. This thing sticking up is its mouth! It doesn't float on the water it sticks to a rock under the water." She initially told me it stuck to rocks by its mouth and then said that "it sticks to rocks with its suction cup legs, like some toys we have in the bathtub."
 Gabe complimented Gracie on how real she made its eyes. Yeah, that's the first thing I noticed too.
And now on to Alek's (10) creation. Meet Squidgellyphytarpirmush. And I'll pay you $5 if you can pronounce that correctly. He wanted a bit of a Latin feel to the name he chose. I think the "phyta" part qualifies?
Here's what Alek wrote about his Squidgellyphytarpirmush (spelling and grammar intact), "It eats usually plankton, sometimes fish, and when it's starving it could eat a whale. It's mad most of the time. Has no predators. It floats on the water when it's sleeping, can rocket through the water for fun, and swim for food. It has poison fingernails and polished naturally red toenails. It breaths air and is able to hold its breath for 12 hours. Its long nose helps it breath. It has a brain just for defense. the hair has poison, like the fingernails. [was running out of room on his paper so he crammed the rest of this...] Has 4 eardrums, 3 mouths and 3 toes on each foot. Has 2 fingers."
They wanted me to bake these so that the clay would harden and they could keep them. Like a good mom, I put them in the oven at the lowest temp it would go. I'm sorry to say that Gracie's Googly Moogly is now just a mere puddle of goo. Maybe she could nickname him that. Goo. Sure, you can still make out its eyes, but its mouth is now one with its body. I guess this particular clay's motto "Never Dries Out!" was really true. Who knew?! I hope she won't be too terribly upset.... |
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Chasity