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Toddler Science
May. 20th, 2009 12:09 pmToddler science is fascinating.
A few weeks ago, the experiment involved upending a sippy cup on the rug to see what happened, and finding that the rug gets wet every time (and that Mama takes away the sippy cup.)
This morning, we're playing with magnets. We have these blocks, with magnets in them (I don't remember what they're called but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
entirelysonja was the one who suggested them.
Two of the half-sphere pieces were stuck together, flat side to flat side. Naomi spent several minutes pulling them apart and putting them together. Then she dropped a piece, and tried to figure out how to get them to stick again and got frustrated when she couldn't make them stick.
Then, she picked up different blocks-one square shaped and one hockey puck shaped and tried to get them to stick, turning them in various combinations, and finally getting them to stick, and then getting bored and tossing them aside for something else.
She's also begun to connect the sound we make when warning her away from something that she shouldn't be touching (not something dangerous, just something she needs to stay out of) with head shaking. So when I've made the noise at her this morning for trying to stick her fingers into my computer, she took her hand away, looked at me and shook her head "no". It was charming and cute and really interesting to see the connection that's been made.
A few weeks ago, the experiment involved upending a sippy cup on the rug to see what happened, and finding that the rug gets wet every time (and that Mama takes away the sippy cup.)
This morning, we're playing with magnets. We have these blocks, with magnets in them (I don't remember what they're called but
entirelysonja was the one who suggested them. Two of the half-sphere pieces were stuck together, flat side to flat side. Naomi spent several minutes pulling them apart and putting them together. Then she dropped a piece, and tried to figure out how to get them to stick again and got frustrated when she couldn't make them stick.
Then, she picked up different blocks-one square shaped and one hockey puck shaped and tried to get them to stick, turning them in various combinations, and finally getting them to stick, and then getting bored and tossing them aside for something else.
She's also begun to connect the sound we make when warning her away from something that she shouldn't be touching (not something dangerous, just something she needs to stay out of) with head shaking. So when I've made the noise at her this morning for trying to stick her fingers into my computer, she took her hand away, looked at me and shook her head "no". It was charming and cute and really interesting to see the connection that's been made.
