Fun with light boxes!!

By -
One of our new purchases is our new Tingkam A3 light box! So much fun!! We picked up some new things to use on it as well. I had to wait until the kids were in bed to pull it out or they would have wanted to play with it for the next hour! SO much fun! It came very well protected (which I'm keeping it in as well!)


Once we took it out of the sleeve we got it plugged in. It's slim, very large surface for use and 3 different light settings.




On the first setting (the dimmest of the three) you can look at x-rays (one of our new purchases as well. We got the broken bones one to go with our anatomy lessons.  Very cool, but I will say there were a couple I looked at and cringed. Can we say "OUCH"?!?! There are a few different sets  available on Amazon.)
There are some cool shapes to play with as well. My 3 Year old is having a ball playing with the geometric solids learning about shapes and colors while all three of the kids are enjoying playing with the different shapes to make pictures. It really is fun for the whole family!


and even some agate slivers! The Agates we had on the brightest setting (which doesn't translate well into pictures but was bright enough to see some wonderful detail)

It's also a tracing and artist light so very versatile! Kaitlyn can't wait to get a hold of it while the other kids are otherwise engaged! I have to admit I have just as much fun with it as the kids do.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Back to school, sort of.

By -
Image
After we got home from our camping trip, we had Oma and Opa come to visit for a couple of weeks. The kids always love seeing them and not a LOT of school got done..because..well, life happens. We started slowly with a few things here and there but didn't hit our full schedule until the end of September/First full week of October. Most of our new stuff arrived for the year. So it was fun looking thru everything! For our social studies/geography/culture studies the kids picked out a few different books. We are still working on some of our books from last year so this was just rounding out a few areas. Then of course they have the "country club" that meets every other week and we have each "student" and/or their family present a different country (they get to choose) and generally have a small talk about the country, do a project, get to taste some yummy food from each country and then the kids go out and play for 20 minutes or so afterwards. Some of the oth
Read more

getting organized, slowly but surely

By -
Image
Starting to get organized for the coming school year. I just got an email that the student planners for the kids are now available at franklin covey, so those will be ordered soon. They have 3 different levels for the kids. An elementary, a middle school and a high school planner. the older selections being more detailed while the younger ones are getting them prepared and used to keeping track of their work, etc. We used them last year with the kids (although I did drop the ball later in the year when I got crazy busy), so I need to make sure we keep up on them for the school year. It really helped my ADHD/dyslexic kiddo to see what was on her schedule each day/week/month and keep track of how she was doing on things so she could visibly see an improvement in area's like reading where she struggles. It helps with executive functioning as well, and learning to keep track of what needs to be done, what you'd like to get done and what is just "extra" and learn to priori
Read more

And that went fast!!

By -
Image
Last time we posted it was early February and I couldn't believe it! and Now here we are Almost done with March!! In the last few weeks we've been hiking, went camping in a yurt, found a bucket full of obsidian, checked out some lava rock, played in the snow, and signed up to change charter schools for next year...so yes it's been busy! big waterfall is from our hike at Silver falls, Snow pictures are from our camping trip to Bend, Oregon. Our first time staying in a yurt and during winter no less! The website says sleeps 8 but we barely slept 7! We visited Glass Butte, Oregon and picked up a bunch of obsidian, saw fresh signs of a bear, walked in the old mill district of Bend, and headed home. 4 days and 3 nights in Bend with friends and had a ball. Next time we might even let Dad come! The girls discovered hiking in snow might be fun and want to give snowshoeing and snowboarding a try. Dominic is looking at starting kindergarten in the f
Read more