What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, the 8 year old reads every Horrible Harry book on her teacher’s bookshelf, except one.
Wordless Wednesday: Mission Accomplished
For Parent’s Night, the teacher had The Eight-Year-Old and her classmates fill out a cloud describing what they hoped to learn in third grade. The Eight-Year-Old wrote:…
“What do paleontologists do with all the things they find that they weren’t actually looking for?”
I knew walking in to Dr. Paul Sereno’s Fossil Lab at the University of Chicago last Tuesday that I’d see a ton of dinosaur bones (perhaps even literally). But what I didn’t expect to see were the human remains and bits of pottery that were scattered about as well. Seeing all that non-dinosaur stuff prompted a question: “What do paleontologists do with all the things they find that they weren’t actually looking for?”
Caterpickles asks the expert: “Dr. Paul Sereno, did dinosaurs have belly buttons?”
This week, The Eight-Year-Old and I got to meet world-famous paleontologist, Dr. Paul Sereno. After three years of hunting for the answer to my daughter’s question about whether or not dinosaurs had belly buttons, I was finally in a paleontology lab with both a world-famous paleontologist and a dinosaur mummy. I bet you can guess what happened next.
Classic Caterpickles: “Did dinosaurs have belly buttons?”: A Caterpickles Investigative Report
On a recent visit to the Boston Museum of Science, my daughter asked “Did dinosaurs have belly buttons?” We did our best to find out, using the evidence available to us at the time.
Wordless Wednesday: All this rainbow needs…
… is a pot of gold. Related Links More Wordless Wednesdays on Caterpickles
What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Eight-Year-Old explores a new topic at the hands of a trusted author (Bruce Coville’s The Unicorn Treasury), shares her favorite book of the week with Mommyo (Socks by Beverly Clearly), and revisits an old favorite (Blockhead by Joseph D’Agnese).
Wordless Wednesday: The Eight-Year-Old goes to Bristol Fair
A few weeks ago, Daddyo took The Eight-Year-Old and I to the Bristol Renaissance Faire. Fortunately, it was one of the hottest days of the year,…
“Why are butterfly antennae smooth while moth antennae are feathery?”
While visiting a butterfly garden, my daughter noticed something strange. Butterflies have long thin antennae, but moths often have wide feathery ones. Why is that?
What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, The Eight-Year-Old pulls the A to Z Mysteries and The Littles from her classroom library, shares a very special book, Tales Told in Holland, with her Gran.
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