It's Fall

It is fall and we have begun to welcome it, despite the crazy warm temps we have had the past couple days. Truly I am not complaining, it could stay like this all year and I'd be loving it.  But I also love the changing of leaves on the trees, which inspired one of KC's  "big questions" for science this past week.  He found a drying leaf that had turned color outside and brought it in.  He wanted to put it in water because he thought this would make it soft and the colors brighter.  (think stem first like a flower not floating on a pool)  So we wrote his big question and what he was doing to answer it and he gave it a go.  When it didn't work, which he could readily see, we got a magnifying glass so he could see the open stem on a green leaf and the plug that develops in fall which is part of why the colors become visible.  He was fascinated that the color is really there all along and just not visible to us.  I am loving that  homeschooling is meeting the needs of his inquisitive little mind.