Science club member takes to the kitchen

Where shall we start?

There is a new club in the Shuswap - Science Club. Science Club started two weeks ago when David asked me when we was going to be done with Behavior Intervention. I asked him what he meant. He said, "You know, all those eye-games I play with Dawn, Behavior Interventionist".

With the Autism Funding from the BC government, David has been attending 9 hours a week of a program called "Reference and Regulate". In the program, children learn to get themselves calm and to start watching adults for nonverbal signs of what they are thinking. Many of the activities are done without using words at all. Apparently "the gig was up" and David had figured out that these games were actually work.

I replied to his query, "If you say you are done, you are. Congratulations. You officially have graduated from Behavior Intervention. How about we have 'Science Club' instead?" He had the same look of joy that you see in the photo above. So we picked a friend from school and invited him to join David and Dawn (former Behavior Interventionist, new Science Club teacher) for two mornings a week.

Science Experiment #1
Creating a volcano and making it erupt. Thanks to Cousin Naomi and her volcano summer birthday party, they were able to observe the eruption in one the volcanoes saved in Arta's house. They then made their own volcanoes using modelling clay.

Science Experiment #2
Create a robot. The robot is a dinosaur. It has a head, a little piece of lightening coming out of it's mouth, it's medium sized, and the feet will be put on next week.

Science Experiment #3
Dawn is out of town, so we have moved the club to Arta's kitchen. Stay posted for what comes next after homemade slurpees and poppy seed cake. They came after making oatmeal for breakfast and discovering the properties of brown sugar and the reaction between the brown sugar and the heat of the steaming bowl of porridge.