Fun in the snow!

The amount of snowfall in Louisville varies every year, thats what I have heard. This year it has snowed about 4 times of which twice it was heavy i.e. The snow stayed for few days.

While in bay area we had to drive 2-3 hours to get to snow, however here in Louisville the snow was in our backyard! The kids did not miss any chance to enjoy the snow.

Fortunately the kids had winter vacation and did not have to worry about homework or falling sick in the cold! They had fun sledding, making snow angels and playing snow ball fights.

Mufaro's beautiful daughters - a play

My family loves going to watch the children's theater shows. Few months after moving to Louisville, hubby "N" wanted to know if I had found a Children's theater here and booked tickets to any play.

As Louisville is a city rich in art, culture and history, I was sure to find such programs here and I was right! One such play that we watched over the weekend was "Mufaro's Beautiful daughters".

It is an African tale about a "happy" person named Mufaro who has 2 beautiful daughters, however one is good and kind-hearted while the other is mean and self-centered. The play opened with a beautiful song that caught the kids attention, followed by the introduction. The entire play was sprinkled with humour which kept the audience giggling. Another song that was very catchy was "Mufaro had 2 beautiful daughters...."

The end as we all know was " and they lived happily ever after " with the kind daughter getting married to the king and the mean daughter learning her lesson.

The kids and we loved the play although it was very short (30-35 mins).

WKU Super Saturdays

After moving to Louisville we have found lot of "hidden" - (for me atleast) gems here in the form of places, programs and museums. Over the weekends there would me multiple events and we have to choose 1-2 out of them.

One such Fall and Winter Saturday program is Super Sarturdays. It is a 4 week hands-on program where kids investigate and learn science, math, art, music, history, performance in a fun way. In the Fall there were about 40 topics offered for kids Gr 1-8. The kids choose 1 topic for their grade level. Super Saturday are hosted and run by The Center for Gifted Studies at West Kentucky University - WKU  in Bowling Green which is about 90 miles from Louisville. I being one of those crazy moms who do not care for distance when it comes to learning, enrolled the kids for this program.

For the Fall session "I" went for Science in motion, where kids made cars and rockets and learnt how to propel them by using rubberbands, blowing air. She enjoyed learning about Force and types of forces- push and pull. For the final day parent presentation, the kids had to launch the rockets they made. 

Placing the rocket on the launcher

Launching it



There it is, high up!



"A" chose "The Science behind Lord of the rings", in which they did a many experiments with controlled substances like Phosphorus to show how magic works. They also read the book - Hobbit. which later resulted in us watching the movie in theater. The kids learnt Dwarf script as well.

Presenting, Noes to Toes!



For winter session "I" attented the "Noes to Toes"  in which they learnt about various body parts (mostly internal). The learned how lungs work, how the brain looks, parts of digestive system and their functions, functions of the skeletal system, function of the brain. For the final day presentation the kids were grouped and asked to make a presentation i.e. draw things they had learnt and then present them to parents.



"A" chose "Mythbusters", which focused on proving or busting the myths with scientific reasoning. Some of them were the "5 second food rule", getorade for charging cell phone, tongue sticks to freezing surfaces, buttered side of a toast would face down when the buttered toast falls etc. As the final day presentation, the kids had to tell which Myth busting experiments they liked and why. Also they kids got to look at various bacterium under the microscope.



5 second rule

Cow tongue for experiment



Looking at bacteria!

Super saturdays were much fun and learning for the kids, so much that "I" wants to go for a Science camp in Summer! Sure enough we can't wait for the next Fall!