The first week of June started with more SOLs for Lyn. She spent most of her time, however, working on her science experiment. She wanted to do something related to food, so she chose to do an experiment testing the effect of sugar on yeast.
She made three batches of breadsticks--one with the correct amount of sugar, one with double the amount of sugar, and one with no sugar at all.
Her hypothesis was that the batch with extra sugar would be soft and sugary and that the batch with no sugar would be hard and yucky. She found, to her surprise (and mom's too), that there was actually not much difference between the three batches. The biggest difference was the COLOR of the breadsticks. The ones with the most sugar were the ones that were the most brown. The ones with no sugar were white!
John also had a project due. He had to design a flag based on his family. There were 5 sections, one section for each individual member of the family plus one section to represent the whole family. Each section had three pictures representing things that person likes, or things the whole family likes to do together. There were 15 pictures in all. He was going to have words, but he forgot them.
Margie continues rehearsals for Oliver! Right now she only has to be at a few rehearsals because she is only in a few scenes. Very soon, however, she will be required every night--we open July 10!
In addition to rehearsals, Margie spent last week at the mall and going out to dinner with friends. And on Saturday, she helped host the opening night party for It Runs in the Family at LTA.
Monday was the third grade picnic! Margie helped set up and ran the bingo station (in the shade, thank heavens!), and Lyn had fun at the shoe relay, water balloon toss, parachute, games on the tennis court, tattoos and face painting, drawing with chalk, and having a picnic lunch.
That night, Margie didn't have rehearsal, so Dan took the opportunity to go pick up a bathtub. You see, the next show he is building requires an isolation chamber in which one of the actors is supposed to be submerged in water. Dan figured that the easiest way to accomplish this would be to build the chamber around a bathtub. He drove all the way to Montogmery Country Maryland and got terribly lost. (Too bad Margie doesn't have that iPhone yet!)
Last Friday was a busy day. It started with "Donuts for Dad" in the morning--a breakfast for fathers and kids hosted by the school. Then it was Field Day, which is supposed be all day, outside PE. It had been rescheduled from last week due to the rain, and because it was supposed to rain again, it was a shortened version, with each class only getting about 1 hour of outside fun (6 stations, 10 minutes each).
Still, the kids had fun. Lyn's favorite was the marble relay, where they had to pick marbles out a baby swimming pool filled with soapy, bubbly water with their toes. John's favorite was the sponge relay, where they had to run to a big bucket with their sponge, fill it up with water, and then wring it out in their own team's bucket. When they finished, Mr. Donnolley (one of the PE teachers) dumped the bucket of water on someone! And the whole time Mr. Bills (the other PE teacher) was spraying water at everyone with the hose. It was a lot of good, wet, fun!
Unfortunately, while Margie diligently put sunscreen on her kids, she failed to do the same for herself and got a wicked sunburn!
That night was the Springfield Estates School Picnic. We got take out food from a local restaurant that had set up a tent on the school grounds and watched the 6th grade vs. faculty/parent kick ball game. Then we listened to a local a cappella singing group called Snow Day. It was fun!
BUT it was NOTHING compared to our FUN DAY!
I will now turn the time over to Lyn, who carefully took notes and will now describe to you what we did yesterday:
First we went to the rash doctor to see about John's rashes.
Then, since we were far away from home, we decided to stay there for the day.
We went to the shop to buy groceries and have some lunch.
John and I had sushi and the grownups had sandwiches. The whole family shared two shakes--chocolate protein and vanilla protein.
Then we went out to the bay and walked on the floating docks. Then we found a playground shaped like a boat. We played Captain and the Ghost Spirit.
Then we found a rock beach and sat on the rocks watching the waves. We saw two jet skis. John didn't like it.
We were on an island, and when we tried to leave, the drawbridge was up, so we couldn't. We saw two ships pass through before they lowered the bridge and we could keep going.
Then we drove to another town (mom's note: Annapolis) and walked around looking for a place to eat dinner. We walked a long time until we finally found a restaurant mom and dad agreed on.
After dinner, we went down to the docks and watched the ships. There was also a wedding ship that a bunch of people were going on, but we weren't there long enough for them to leave. But we did see a tour boat heading out.
Then we had ice cream! It was John's last day (the doctor told him that ice cream was bad for his rash), so he got to have a double scoop!
And that's all my notes. Lyn.
Today, we went to church and Margie had rehearsal and here we are. Only four more days left of school. John is excited, he says, "because I'm one of the kids who doesn't like school."
OH! And John lost his two front teeth! (Finally...) And Dan took a really cool picture of a butterfly:
Have a great week!
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