It's that time of the school year again...Science Fair!!! This year Zenon gets his inspiration from the Mythbusters with a little twist on how to execute it from CoSi.
As always Mom and Dad's roles are to make sure he works on it continuously so he doesn't miss the deadline, plus making sure he sticks to the criteria set which includes -- following the scientific process and keeping it neat and clean. He mostly needs help with the keeping it neat and clean.
The only help he has needed in the past projects he's had are to make sure he is able to focus his ideas because I tell you this kid's brain is wired to explore everything and ask every question possible. As he does with everything else, we just need to help tone down the excitement but keep the enthusiasm up.
This year we're also back to hand-writing everything...which is annoying because I never realized that he wasn't as familiar with a keyboard as I thought he was (using it for Minecraft doesn't count!). So last year when the school said typed text is good which is how I learned about the whole keyboard issue, I jumped to the opportunity of him sitting down and typing.
I had to make sure of course that I sat by him because his hand-written notes are so neat he sometimes needs help reading it. Besides, I had him type it in an egg-shaped text box to keep with the topic/"theme" he had going.
I still remember the very first time he had to do a science fair project. It was also the very first time we went to Ohio thus our very first time going to CoSi.
We came home and went through his binder and there it was, the science fair packet. We were sitting down and asked him what he wanted to do and he blurted out excitedly, "Sound waves!!!".
Andrew and I looked at each other in shock and awe. We were very proud and quite confused. All amazement and all these questions in our head started popping up.
Where did he get that idea? Sound waves?? What does he know about sound waves?? Oh my god he's so freakin' smart! I always knew he was smart but this?? My god our son's a genius. Wait, science fair, sound waves...yes, awesome idea, but wait...how in the world???
So our brains processed all this a million miles per second and Zenon unfazed by the reaction we had simply continued explaining like everything was normal, "Yeah like the experiment at CoSi. I want to replicate that."
Replicate. Did he really use the word replicate??? ...Okay, okay, calm parent. Remember, parent not child. Who's the parent??? Oh yeah...yay!!! I'm the parent!!!
Okay, calm. Ask him how and if he can't answer we make him do a different experiment. One that he actually understands.
We got shut down by a 6 year old. He explained how to he was going to make his experiment. He was going to get speakers like the one dad has on his computer (old school! Haha!), then get a water bottle or tube then play his favorite song on Mom's iPad and go from there.
Well, what do Andrew and I know, we're just the freakin' parents right???
Zenon has so far placed first in his very first Science Fair when he was in 1st Grade and 4th place the following year. Praying for a win again this year!
Zenon is by no means aggressive even when it comes to sports but his competitive side comes out when it comes to this. He always goes for the gold.
God my son is gonna make me so rich! Hahaha!!! No seriously, we have lotto tickets but I have a million times better odds Zenon will make us stinkin' rich than winning the lottery!
Zenon's First grade Science Fair project on sound waves won him First Place.
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