After putting off the experiment for a full week, although we should have done this over the holiday break, we have finished! Last night about 9 pm! Then, as luck would have it, no school today because of the threat of snow. No flakes yet- at 2:21pm! M. was super excited to conduct her first science experiment. We ran through a list of possibilities before arriving at the "winner". One of the rejected ideas- watching a scary movie every night before bed to see if it caused nightmares. Yeah, right, I vetoed that one right away because guess who would be the one losing sleep when in fact, scary movies DID cause nightmares. Then L. and H. set out to terrorize my baby to see if she would get scared. It worked! She screamed, cried and did not trust them for about a week. So we settled on an experiment to see if "lefties" were more ambidextrous than "righties". Each participant got 3 throws of a bocci ball to get it closest to the target with both dominant and non-dominant hands. Turns out lefties are not more ambidextrous but they are more accurate. Cool, huh? Next year I promise we will start much earlier!
