mathmom's blog

For the summer, each kid is supposed to have a long term project to be working on.  Luke's was learning to type, but he rejected that one.  I suggested we choose a new goal: learn Spanish, or knitting, or something like that. Well, yesterday he came up with 2 new projects. First, he is trying to create a world record for the largest amount of pencil shavings.  He sharpened all the pencils in the house (it took him about 30 minutes with our lovely electric pencil sharpener!) and put the shavings in a large garbage bag.  So far, he has about 1 cup of pencil shavings, but he dreams big.  He is completely undeterred by the fact that there is no record. Interestingly, I googled whether there is a record for this, and came across a blog post of another little boy who decided to break this record as well. The other project is to make the Solar System out of cotton balls.  He induced me to buy a bag of cotton balls at the store, and then has been soaking them in bowls with various