Each day, we try to have a focus on “science” around here.

It’s a pretty broad spectrum. Ezra has a great game (which I’ll talk more about later) that works on physics, which counts as science. And sometimes if he can build a tower to a certain height that I dictate, that counts as science as well (engineering?).

But usually science is either learning about his own body, the growth cycle of plants or lots and lots of information on animals. As you can guess, learning about animals is his favorite.

We watch a bunch of nature programming on NatGeo, and we have some wonderful books that we read through and then use as guides to jump off of (did you know there is a jellyfish that is immortal? Did you know that if a jellyfish is split in half, it becomes two jellyfish?).

By the way, that link up there is to purchase that amazing book through one of my favorite local booksellers — please support them instead of Amazon right now!

Anyway, that has led to Ezra playing more with these animal toys in his free time, which I love. I bought these for him about 3 years ago on a whim at the zoo gift shop. He was begging me for them, and I knew he would likely forget about them by the next day, but I liked the quality and the idea of more imaginative play, so I caved. And now I am SO GLAD that I did.