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I'm spending much of my day with my grandkids, trying to read to them, play with them (limited, as many of their play activities involve a level of imagination that I seem to lack), and stimulate their interests.
Grandson_3 (age 5) is really interested in tornadoes and hurricanes, but also recently interested in volcanoes, so we often watch some video of recent eruptions (or an Iceland live-stream). After the recent rains, we went outside yesterday and checked the rain gauge together. I want to get him a weather station that has the spinning wind cups and the directional pointer, so we can start daily information gathering.
His brother, Grandson_4 (age 3) likes animals, especially marine mammals and penguins, so we have themed weeks. This is currently LION WEEK, so today we learned about populations across Africa and the single population in India, and tomorrow we'll learn about their social relationships.
The youngest brother, Grandson_5 (age 1.5) is more challenging. He hasn't yet acquired the verbal skills to say what interests him and if the older two are building something, he just wants to destroy it and take the pieces so they cannot rebuild.
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By the way, the African lion's numbers have dropped by up to 40% across much of its range. The Asiatic lion is extinct across most of its historic range, but over a century of preservation effort in one Indian wildlife reserve has bumped their numbers from about 10 to almost 500.
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By the way, we recently had GIRAFFE WEEK and ZEBRA WEEK, so we've already seen lions hunting them. And I don't think lions have a major predator (their main enemy is human poachers) so Thursday ("What does $ANIMAL eat?" day) and Friday ("What eats $ANIMAL?" day) may be devoted to something else.