Da Vinci: The Genius

 This week we went to a special exhibit at the science museum on DaVinci.

The first part of the exhibit had models of things he had designed, like this bike.

 

This was an emergency bridge that didn't need nails or rope to hold it together.  There was a small version you could try to put together, too.

 

Jack and a jack.

 

The mirror room!

 

There was also a section of models you could try out.

 

Another area was about his art.

 

The section I thought was the most interesting was on the Mona Lisa.

 

There are actually four different paintings layered on top of each other.  The third painting was of Lisa Gherardini.

 

Even though it's been though that the Mona Lisa was a painting of Lisa Gherardini, you can see that they are actually separate paintings.

 

This is how the Mona Lisa would have looked when it was painted.

 

On the left you can see the original colors and on the right you can see how it looks today.

 

It was a really interesting exhibit!

 

We did take some time to check out other parts of the museum, too!

 

I'm glad we went Tuesday because if we had waited until Friday like we had originally planned, we would have missed it due to the weather!

100 Read Alouds

Audio Books

1. Breadcrumbs

2. Masterminds

3. The Pepins and Their Problems

4. Turtle in Paradise

5. James and the Giant Peach

6. Fuzzy Mud

7. Stella by Starlight

8. Above Average

9. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

10. Christina's Ghost

11. Nooks and Crannies

12. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

13. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

14. Sarah, Plain and Tall

15. Skylark

16. Caleb's Story

17. Mary Poppins

18. Room One

19. Troublemaker 
20. Dominic

Jay & Jack's Read Alouds

1. George Washington's Spy

2. The Tiger Rising

3. Brixton Brothers: The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity

4. Hatchet

5. Go Jump in the Pool

6. Beware the Fish

7. The Iron Man

8. The Secret of Wildcat Swamp

9. The Jungle Pyramid

10. The Witchmaster's Key

11. On the Wings of Heroes

12. 100 Cupboards

13. Interstellar Pig

14. The Boy Who Reversed Himself

15. Blackbriar

Family Read Alouds

1. Treasure on Superstition Mountain

2. Revenge on Superstition Mountain

3. Have You Seen Hyacinth Macaw?

4. The Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine

5. The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy

6. The Ghost, the White House, and Me

7. Crenshaw

8. May B.

9. Grandma's Attic Vol. 1

10. Grandma's Attic Vol. 2

11. The Cricket in Times Square

12. Grandma's Attic Vol. 3

13. The Magic Half

14. By the Great Horn Spoon

15. Radio Fifth Grade

16. Minn of the Mississippi

17. The Highly Trained Dogs of Professor Petit

18. Grandma's Attic Vol. 4

19. Who is Bugs Potter?

20. No More Dead Dogs

21. Sixteen and Away From Home (Grandma's Attic Vol. 5)

22. Owls in the Family

23. Eighteen and On Her Own (Grandma's Attic Vol. 6)

24. Who Can Open Michelangelo's Seven Seals?

25. Caddie Woodlawn

26. The Jungle Book

27. Soup

28. Nineteen and Wedding Bells Ahead (Grandma's Attic Vol. 7)

29. The Tree in the Trail

30. Criminal Destiny

31. Caddie Woodlawn's Family

32. Mr. Pudgins

33. Henry Reed, Inc.

34. The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic

35. Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head

36. Return to Gone-Away

37. The Penderwicks

38. Soup & Me

39. At Home in North Branch (Grandma's Attic Vol. 8)

40. New Faces, New Friends (Grandma's Attic Vol. 9)

41. The Screaming Statue

42. Ruby Holler

43. Outlaws of Time: The Legend of Sam Miracle

44. There's an Owl in the Shower

45. Little House in the Big Woods

46. Family Grandstand

47. A Week in the Woods

48. The Children of Noisy Village

49. Little House on the Prairie

50. The Boys' War

51. Moon Over Manifest

52. Lunch Money

53. Fair Weather

54. On the Banks of Plum Creek

55. Amber Brown is Green with Envy

56. The Great Gilly Hopkins

57. Here Lies the Librarian

58. Leroy Ninker Saddles Up

59. Francine Poulet Meets the Ghost Raccoon

60. By the Shores of Silver Lake

61. Stonewords: A Ghost Story

62. The Family Under the Bridge

63. The Teacher's Funeral
64. No Talking
65. A Long Way From Chicago

We spend a lot of time reading aloud and our goal this year was to read 100 books. We finished #100 Saturday afternoon around 1:30!

Happy 2017!

 Happy New Year!  If you're on Facebook, these pictures will look familiar, because they're the exact same ones.  My camera is not working on my phone, so I used Jack's, and I haven't downloaded the rest yet!

 This year we pretty much did our same thing with our bags.  (So nice to have a better place to put them than we had last year!)

 At 5:00 we made kinetic sand.

 6:00 was dinnertime and we made fondue!

 We also went through the memory jar.  Lots of good memories this year!

 At 7:00 we did several Minute to Win It games.  This one was where they were trying to catch cotton balls the other one was throwing.

 In this one they set up an obstacle course and then had to complete it backwards with only a handheld mirror to help them.

 At 8:00 we went to our neighbors' house for a while to their party.

 We came back home a little before 11:00, which was when they opened Suspend.  This game is a lot harder than I thought it would be.  I should have gotten the junior version!

 Just before 12:00 they got their last surprise of the evening...

 a Hatchimal!  I was out Christmas shopping when my friend texted me that they had them at ToysRUs, so I ended up getting one.  Jack had mentioned to me several times that he would like one, so it was fun to get to surprise them!

We made it to midnight!  I was hoping to go right to bed, but we had to stay up to see the Hatchimal break out of his egg!  Happy 2017!