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by: Tom Lehrer

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,

And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,

And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,

And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,

Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,

And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,

And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium,

And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,

And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,

And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,

And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.

There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,

And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,

And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,

Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.

And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,

Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,

And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,

And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,

And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,

And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,

And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard,

And there may be many others, but they haven't been discavard.

(sung to "The Adams Family of course)  by Kathleen Crawford.

They are so small (snap, snap)

They're round like a ball (snap, snap)

They make up the air

They're everywhere

Can't see them at all

They're tiny and they're teeny

Much smaller than a weenie

They never can be seenie

The Atoms Family

(chorus)

Together they make masses

And liquid like molasses

And all the common gases

The Atoms Family

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(Sung to the tune of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer)

There was Cobalt and Argon and Carbon and Fluorine

Silver and Boron and Neon and Bromine

But do you recall

the most famous element of all?

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Iron the red atom molecule

had a very shiny orbital

And if you ever saw him

You'd enjoy his magnetic glow

All of the other molecules

used to laugh and call him Ferrum

They never let poor Iron

join in any reaction games.

Then one inert Chemistry eve

Santa came to say

Iron with your orbital so bright

won't you catalyze the reaction tonight?

Then how the atoms reacted

and combined in twos and threes

Iron the red atom molecule

you'll go down in Chemistry!

Sung to "i'm looking over a 4-leaf clover."

There's no disputin'
Sir Isaac Newton
	was one very brainy guy.
He started thinkin'
	(It didn't take long),
Soon he wrote three laws
	that make up this song:
First was inertia,
F equals m a came next
and as we all know;
Force and Reaction 
are equal always,
In opposite ways they go.


There's no disputin'
Sir Isaac Newton
	Was one very brainy guy.
He made up Physics,
and Calculus too!
No one was able his work to outdo.
Motion and forces,
and heat and optics,
and gravity he explained.
Science and Math he
explained succinctly,
and over them both he reigned!

Words: Br. R.W.Harris

Ask your kids what color they think light is. A silly question? Sunlight or light from a lamp may look "white" but it is really made up of different colors. Red, blue, and green are the primary colors of light. That means you can make any color from combinations of these three. We see an object in a certain color because that color is reflected by the object, while other colors are absorbed.

Materials:

3 big flashlights
pieces of red, blue, and green cellophane paper
tape
30 cm white card
white toy or ornament

Procedure:

1. Tape one piece of cellophane over the bulb end of each flashlight.

2. In a dark room, turn on the flashlights.

3. Shine the red and green flashlights on to the white card. What happens? (You make the color yellow.) Try mixing the blue and green lights. (You get cyan.) Now mix the blue and red lights. (You get magenta.)

4. Put the white toy in the center of the card and shine the three flashlights on it. Have the kids circle around the toy to see it in different colors.

5. Ask them what color you will get if you shine all three lights on the white card at the same time. (You get white. White light is made up of red, blue, and green. These are called the primary colors. To get black, you would have mixed colored paints, not lights.)

When teaching your children  about the types of metal that magnets attract,  use the mnemonic device "Magnets, INC." (borrowed from Monsters, Inc.).

This helps them to remember that magnets will attract iron (I), nickel (N), and cobalt (C).

This recipe was suggested by Marie, the representative for the Washingston State Homeschool Nations Blog (found  here.)  You can also visit her family blog, which always has something interesting going on,  find it here.    

This recipe was found at the OMSI Science Playground, which looks like it has several neat science projects.  Their site can be found here: http://www.omsi.edu/visit/playground/activities.cfm

You will need:

Warm water
2 cups Elmers White Glue*
Liquid Water Color (do not use food coloring)
Glitter (optional)
2 tsp. Borax (20 Mule Team Borax, available in any grocery store laundry section)

The instructions:

• In a small container, combine:
  1-1/3 cup very warm water
  2 tsp. Borax
• Stir until Borax is completely dissolved.
• Set aside.
• In a large container, combine:
  1-1/2 cup very warm water
  2 cups Elmer's White Glue
  Liquid Water Color
  Glitter (optional)
• Mix thoroughly.
• Pour the contents of the small container into the large container.
• Mix well using your hands.
• Lift and turn the mixture until it is fully combined.

This is their explanation of "Flubber:" 

Flubber is a polymer made by a chemical reaction. Polymers are very long chains of repeating units. When the two solutions are combined, polyvinyl acetate chains (a polymer from the white glue) are linked together in a 3-dimensional arrangement by borate ions (from the Borax) and other chemical bonds. This produces the thick, sticky polymer called Flubber.

It also suggests that if you get this mixture on your carpet, use white vinegar to clean it and it will dissolve completely.

This is sung to "row, Row, Row your boat."

What is matter? What is matter?

Can you guess? Can you guess?

Matter is rocks and trees, falling leaves and bumblebees,

That's what matter is.

Matter is everything you see,

it is you and it is me,

it has weight and takes up space,

that is matter, isn't it great?

This is sung to "I'm a Little Teapot."

I'm a little magnet, can't you see?

Anything metal sticks right to me.

If it's not metal, you will see,

it just won't stick to me!

This is sung to "Frere Jacques."

Potential energy, potential energy,

it is stored, it is stored,

if it is kinetic, if it is kinetic,

it is used, it is used.