Mouse on Wheels

<p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=408,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/mouseonwheels_1.jpg"><img title="Mouseonwheels_1" height="51" alt="Mouseonwheels_1" src="https://caygibson.typepad.com/cays_cajun_cottage/images/mouseonwheels_1.jpg" width="100" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> As I said in an earlier post, we have been very lax with science around our house...other than nature study.</p> <p>So I've been allowing lots of Discovery Channel viewing and pulling lots of living science books and strewing them around the house and vehicle.&nbsp; I also pulled out the <a href="http://www.setonbooks.com/viewone.php?ToView=P-SC02-11"><strong>Grade 2 Seton Science book</strong></a> because we use workbooks at table time.</p> <p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=727,height=1008,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/starmouse.jpg"><img title="Starmouse" height="138" alt="Starmouse" src="https://caygibson.typepad.com/cays_cajun_cottage/images/starmouse.jpg" width="100" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> DQ reads a chapter aloud to me and we discuss each page as we go.&nbsp; </p> <p>After our science &quot;lesson&quot;, as she ran off to watch yet <em>another </em>episode of Animal Planet, I spied the picture (upper lefthand corner) in her science book.&nbsp; If you look closely you'll see a little mouse on wheels racing across the orbit.&nbsp; </p> <p><span style="color: #cc0000;">(To see the little mouse, click on each bigger for a larger version.)</span></p> <p>I flipped the pages of her science book and saw this little mouse literally living amongst the stars as you can see in the second picture.</p> <p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=595,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/mouserocket.jpg"><img title="Mouserocket" height="74" alt="Mouserocket" src="https://caygibson.typepad.com/cays_cajun_cottage/images/mouserocket.jpg" width="100" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a>Here's a picture of him rocketing through space and another one of him waving from a stopwatch and one of him reading his science book.</p> <p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=757,height=881,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/stopwatch.jpg"><img title="Stopwatch" height="116" alt="Stopwatch" src="https://caygibson.typepad.com/cays_cajun_cottage/images/stopwatch.jpg" width="100" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> I find myself so eager to see where this little mouse's next adventures will take him.&nbsp; He'll make our journey into science just that more exciting.</p> <p><span style="color: #cc0000;">(To see the little mouse, click on each bigger for a larger version.)</span></p> <p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=780,height=437,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://caygibson.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/bookmouse.jpg"><img title="Bookmouse" height="56" alt="Bookmouse" src="https://caygibson.typepad.com/cays_cajun_cottage/images/bookmouse.jpg" width="100" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> </p> <p>Pictures are taken from <a href="http://www.setonbooks.com/viewone.php?ToView=P-SC02-11"><strong>Seton's Science 2 book</strong></a> for the sake of showing off DQ's spacemouse.</p>

Comments

[AliceG]

I love her space mouse! That space suit he's wearing in the first picture is hysterical, and it looks to me as if DQ added the detail of having him look as if he's perspiring so close to the sun. Aren't those droplets coming out of his helmet? So funny!

[AliceG]

When I said "first" picture, I meant the picture of the sun. I hadn't seen the other two yet. Love the car with the eager mouse exclaiming, "go, go, go!"