Ms. Amy's Blog @Child Central Station

Life has been good, but very busy. We've been doing great things, but often, we have been just to busy for me to blog about it! Today, Dane and I decided to work on some Lego Science. He is all about school work when it involves Legos. Here is the chart we used. First he made 4 different LEGO vehicles, all of his own creations. He named them and I printed a blank chart with the photos of each creation. Then as we worked, he filled in the chart with pencil. (Later, I had him transfer his findings to the computer. This also gave him the opportunity to work on his typing.) We made lot of predictions/estimations. We used a digital postage scale to weigh the creations in grams. We used an online stopwatch to time our racers. Each racer went down the ramp independently. We noticed right away that our ramp was too steep and we lowered it considerably. We did decide that it could be much better if our ramp was much longer. (We will be picking up a longer board when we are out and about ...

Honestly, has there ever been a toy created greater than the LEGO? It is seriously one cool toy! Did you know????? Legos come from Denmark (Danmark). The word lego comes from the two words leger and godt which mean play and good/well. We literally have thousands of photos of lego creations. When I leave the camera in the toy room, it almost always ends up filled with photos of recent lego critters or buildings...... Children of all ages using their imaginations and building creations. We are very fortunate in our household to have visited the original Legoland in Billund, Denmark. We also visited Egeskov Castle and saw some of the original Lego Toys. Did you know that lego toys were originally made of wood, and the very first toys were milk trucks? What kinds of lego creations have you been making?