At lunch today I was talking to Maren about the moon and about what an eclipse is. I told her that when the moon goes directly in front of the sun and blocks the sun from us, it is called an eclipse. Scott then stepped in and decided to show
Maren exactly how it works. He pointed at the plant on the table and said "Let's say this is the sun", and taking an apple said "and this is the earth". Then using a cork as the moon proceeded to rotate it around the apple and rotating both around the plant. During all of this rotating and explaining, Maren kept yelling out that the plant was NOT the sun. "The sun is in the sky Pappa!" And when Scott got to the part about the eclipse, Maren yelled out "No! Only girls where clips Pappa!" Scott finally gave up when Maren started trying to eat the earth.
When I was putting Mar down for a nap just now she bagan telling me this story of when she was a little girl and went on a hike with Pappa to a waterfall. She said that the waterfall was as big as a dragon, and that she and Pappa flew on the dragon back to the flowers... I love her imagination!
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I love this story! I remember doing the sun, earth, moon rotation/revolution stuff with the kids many times during homeschool, but I don't think I tried to get across that concept when they were 2-1/2!
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