Over the weekend, Samara was frantically looking for her mirror. I helped her locate it thinking she wanted to play with it or pretend to put on her "makeup."
After finding it, she stuck her little mirror in her backpack. I asked her why was she putting it in her backpack and she responded, "well I might need it at school."
While doing homework last night with Samara, she asked how erasers can take the pencil marks off of the paper.
Once again, her question stumped me, so I had to say, "Let's find out together." Good thing the internet exists! So apparently when the tip of a pencil is moved across a piece of paper, graphite particles from the pencil stick to the paper fibers. An eraser rubbed against the paper will remove the mark by removing the graphite. Pencils have been made from graphite, not lead since 1564 when graphite was discovered in England. Since graphite leaves a darker mark than lead and it's not toxic, pencils have been made of graphite for hundreds of years. Who knew? We still refer to pencils as lead pencils!
Edward Naime, an English engineer, is given credit for inventing the eraser in 1770. Before his discovery, people used to use wads of white bread to remove the pencil marks.
After learning all of this, I told my daughter thank for asking such excellent questions. Because of her curiosity, I learn something new often.
La araña pequeñita subió, subió, subió.
Vino la lluvia y se la llevó.
Salio el sol y todo lo secó
Y la araña pequeñita subió, subió, subió.
Cinco monitos
Columpiándose en el árbol
Molestando al caimán,
No me puedes agarrar!
Llego el caimán
Muy calladito.
Agarro a un monito
Fuera del arbolito.
Cuatro monitos...
Tres monitos...
Dos monitos...
Un monito...
Fallaste! Fallaste!
Tienes que besarme!
We went to China Town last weekend to help a friend purchase a guitar at Tanyan Music store. They have great prices and excellent quality instruments. The kids had fun eating Chinese food, salted squid, fried shrimp and chow mein with their chopsticks. It's good for children to see other cultures and different ways of living.
This weekend, Samara was very busy working on something. When she is quiet, I have learned to ask what she is doing. Well, she said, "I am making cards for my friends at school." She had gotten large index cards, stickers, colored pencils and envelopes. She then proceeded to draw pictures, place certain stickers on the cards and design the outside of each envelope. Five girls were chosen and she asked if she could put one piece of candy in each envelope. I was so touched with her kindness, her creativity and her thoughtfulness. She is quite remarkable. She delivered her cards this morning. Let's she what she has to say when I pick her up this afternoon.
Today we played school, and she taught me the Spanish alphabet. She made sure to point out that in Spanish there are two N's, the n and the ñ.
