Curiosity

Welcome to a new week! 

Today, the boys' curiosity really drove a lot of what we did this morning. Our morning began like any other, but there was something new one one of the tables... floam!

 N sat with a big pile of floam and explored the strange bubbly texture. He would roll it on the table and watch the small sticky balls stick to his hands and table. N giggled as he tried to peel each one off. He made several attempts to try and "break" the floam, but didn't find much success. That didn't stop him from trying out different ways to play with it: hiding animals, dropping it off the table, and finally pressing hard onto the table to make it flat. 

Across the table, however, L sat with his floam and furrowed brow. In the video below you can see how L examines the floam with such curiosity! For about the next 10 minutes, L sat with his floam really studying it and moving it around to explore it in its entirety. Just look at those eyebrows! 

The curiosity didn't just stop at the small stuff, it continued with the big stuff too! We took a long walk today and added in some necessary curiosity breaks. N wasn't too happy that today wasn't our forest day, but he was excited to be able to check out a tree close to the sidewalk to practice his climbing. As he climbed, he quickly realized his shoes were too wet to climb on the higher branches. 

N climbed up and noticed the moss growing between the bark on the tree. He ran his fingers up and down the bark before finally sliding off the trunk and trying it again.  

Our last curiosity break was the teeniest and tiniest wondering. L plopped down onto the sidewalk and began following an ant crawling across the cold cement. He got up close and personal with the ant before losing him under a leaf. 

It was a great day to start off our week!