Funny Friday

I try to make Fridays light and fun but also inadvertently made this past Friday Funny. I was cooking dinner and grabbed what I thought was a squash from the piles of garden produce. Everyone said, that doesn't taste right, then Colin realised that it was a strange cucumber he had grown in his garden! It can be a bit tricky to identify what the kids grow since they like to plant random seeds!!

Another funny happened when the frog and toad food was left on the kitchen counter, it was almost used to season food since the container is a lot like a salt or pepper shaker, photo below. Must watch where we put that frog food!

Speaking of frogs some of the tadpoles we brought in from the cold pool to finish raising have changed into tree frogs. I knew a good warm up would speed their development and they were doomed in that pool on the below freezing nights. As it turned warmer and rainy on Friday we  released the 6 tree frogs that had finished morphing.  We'll have to over winter some of them, since they'll change too late and I don't know if we'll get another warm up but hopefully not too many.

For fun Friday science we built K'nex paddle boats, learning about wheels, axles and force, we took them to the lake to try out. As they were they didn't float but using some foam I had and some plastic lake toys the kids all got them floating, they did travel quite far.

We finished this week's batch of Mammals, the marsupials. This week we also learned about Pangaea which is when the continents all might have been connected. the kids had fun making their own variations of what this might have looked like.

We have been learning about Spain this week, didn't do anything too exciting but I'll make a Spanish themed meal some time this weekend. We are going to skip around a little more in geography since Europe is getting a little monotonous, not the countries themselves but the similarity of the lessons.


K'nex paddleboat photos:

 Comet's 24 week old photos:

 Tiny new tree frogs, one day a tadpole swimming, the next a tiny tree frog climbing up the edge of the cage:

Releasing a few tiny tree frogs on a warmer day:

 A couple of the kids variations of Pangaea:

 Would you like salt, peeper or frog food with that:

 Pretty autumn puppy!