Science Day

Today was science day at school and the parents got to go into school to see what the kids had been doing in science.

Talk about organized chaos.

There were tables around the edge of the room with "experiments" on them, but as I arrived mid-morning, most of the "experiments" had turned to mush and slop.

For example, some genius thought it was a good idea to place a vat of cornflakes and milk in the school hall to show what happens to cornflakes when they get soggy. There were lots of big plastic syringes that the kids could use to baste the flakes in milk.

Guess what happened?

My son ended up squirting some poor girl with milk all over her nice jumper. I bet she will stink for the rest of the day. I told my son to be more careful and he descended into a screaming fit. The teacher came over to see if he was OK.

"It's a bit unstructured for him isn't it?" she remarked.

"And noisy."

Anyway., I managed to calm him down and we went to look at another experiment. This time it was about teabags. My son enjoyed poring out the tea...all over the floor of the hall...We quickly moved to the next experiment, a pile of mouldy food in bags. My son went to grab one....we moved on again.....

In the end, we settled for an experiement where he ran round the hall and I took his pulse. It seemed to keep him amused.

Science day was a bit rubbish really.