Tag Archives: science
And the Week Flies By…
I have some major updating to do about our school week. Before I know it Wednesday has arrived and I haven’t posted anything about what we’ve been doing. Monday we started new events in History (The Mycenaean Culture) and Linguistics (the words relieve, believe, conceive, either, field, thief, grief, wieners, neither, seize, conceived, shield, belief, being …
Carnival
Whew! This morning has been crazy! We started off by completing another math lesson and reviewing for the Latin quiz tomorrow. Then I had to get 3 kids dressed, fed and ready to go for the End of Summer Carnival one of the moms from the ECHO group put together. I wish I had any …
My Little Artists
Today was fairly successful. While we weren’t finished by lunch, Blazer was more interested in our subjects as so we spent a little more time on each. Math was spent still working through Singapore. He is doing well with one lesson a day. We also finished the book How to Think Like a Scientist by …
First Day
For as worried and stressed out about today I have been for the past month, it went surprisingly smoothly! I woke up right at 7 since Miss C was hungry and fed her in bed where she promptly went back to sleep. I got my shower and Blazer was up when I got out. We …
Fairy Houses
On Thursday we met up with our ECHO group to build fairy houses and do a lesson on trees. The hostess did a fantastic job with the kids. We talked about the different parts of the tree and most kids got to wear or hold something symbolic to represent that part of the tree. Blazer …
Yeast
Last week for science we read about Louis Pasteur and his work with microbes. This week we are doing some experiments. We already grew some bacteria comparing Blazer’s saliva to my saliva and today we got to play with yeast. Blazer observed how yeast reacted with warm water, warm water and sugar and cold water and …
Science Sunday #2
Sunday we took the boys to COSI again. This time we spent all the time we had between the Life exhibit and the Kid’s Space. Blazer was really freaked out by the life exhibit as they had a video of a mom in labor (belly and up, nothing too graphic). I think it hit a little too close to …
Science Sunday
My sister and her new boyfriend came up Saturday night so we spent Sunday at COSI with the boys. Our membership had lapsed since all Racer wanted to do was run into people’s shins with shopping carts, but I renewed it today (and got the home school discount!) and we enjoyed our time exploring all the different stations. …
Optics
Papa Bear had Monday & today off so we’ve been taking it easy this week as far as “official school”. However, since Papa Bear had some time today, he and Blazer worked on their Ancient Science book. This book is pretty awesome in that it starts with very basic principles so the student is ‘discovering’ ideas along with the …
