Robots

Katherine likes robots and enjoys watching videos of them on youtube with her daddy. I searched the library for kids books on robots and had one on request. We picked it up this week.

The book was called Sammy and the Robots. I read it to Katherine after dinner while still at the table. I made the mistake of not reading through the book on my own first. The little boy has a robot that stops working. He has his grandmother help him to send it to the robot hospital. Then his grandmother gets a cough and has to go to the hospital.

Sam and I start looking at each other across the table. Surely the grandmother will not die. She does not thanks to the new robots that Sammy makes that "blast the cough". We thought the book was pretty stupid and it did not teach anything about robots.

We decided though to build a robot using "recycled" materials from around the house. So, Sam and Katherine worked for about 30 minutes to make the "trisket box robot". Katherine's main contribution was coloring the robot. She really wanted to help with the tape but her skills with the tape include pulling it out as far as possible and getting it all tangled up.


Here is Katherine telling you what she made and then she even talks like a robot.