We're Off to the Poopy Plant!

Heh heh ... a field trip to the water filtration plant has to inspire some jokes and crude comments, right? Who'd have thought they'd all come from the parents?

The kids are studying the water cycle in co-op this month. This is a great topic - thanks Sarah! - and it's already had some serendipitous offshoots. We missed our first co-op because we were visiting at Julie's, so in order not to start off behind, we brought along a few things we had at home that addressed the subject.

One of those happened to be a Magic School Bus book about the water cycle. Well - that was M's first exposure to Magic School Bus, and it was just perfect timing - she was absolutely enthralled with it! There was a little rolling of eyes from the other side of the table, since E considers herself done with those books by several years now, but M was just mesmerized. It led to more & more Magic School Bus adventures for us, and she's learning a ton from them. I love those books & shows!

Another great thing she learned last week while studying water cycle, though I suppose not quite so accidental, was about the states of matter. I hadn't yet talked to her about solids, liquids and gases, much less the transformation of one substance from one state to the next to the next - so it was fun to talk about that, and we have had several lively conversations since then about states of matter.

And very incidentally, just two days before I read the materials to them, and completely oblivious to the entire water cycle thing, M was asking some questions about the nature of clouds and how they formed and such - the timing could not have been better!

So. That brings us to today. It's field trip day - and our destination is the water filtration plant! I for one am so grateful that this is NOT a Magic School Bus trip ...