Gifts from Friends

Our homeschool friends gifted us with a few experiment kits that they were no longer using. These were in our homeschooling closet and the children found them and took it upon themselves to investigate. One was a sound kit and the other was a seed growing experiment kit.

These were a lot of fun and both children really enjoyed them! Thanks Carol :)

Sound kit

Seed kit

Jumping salt, this one they did A LOT!

Hello... you there??

Using lettuce seeds. She needed to see which pot would grow better, water or no water :) We are pleased to report the lettuce seeds with water sprouted very quickly. Her hypothesis was correct! She was also impressed that they would sprout on a wet cotton ball!

The Release...

After lovingly tending to our Monarchs the big release happened last week :) We were all excited to see the butterfly fly off, such a neat experience to watch the life cycle of this very cool creature!

Geography Week!

So we started back to school last week after a pretty great summer! I rotate History, Geography and Science on a weekly schedule along with our other core subjects. Last week was history, we did a bit of catch up on that front as we didn't quite finish up the entire program (LOTS IN IT!!)

I am finding that my initial thoughts of schooling Little Miss have changed considerably and I am in change up mode :) One of those changes is not to do a History/Geography program with her yet. Too young! So I am changing up and going the way of the Lap Book!

This week is Geography and am doing Trail Guide Around the World with Mr. Monkey. So far a good program. I am doing a Lap Book Project with Little Miss from Hands of a Child called Tell Me About Planet Earth. She has liked all the little books so far :) I will also add additional activities as we good. Like today we made the WORLD!!! LOL Messy fun! We'll poke an axis through those once they are painted and dry :)

Preparing for the World's construction

Her first lap book

Two activities done so far :)

Our world was indeed built in a day LOL

Done!

Monarchs!!

Our good friend Carol gave us 2 Monarch Eggs to hatch at home. Sadly I squished one of the little caterpillars with my thumb, Doh! We did find another one though in our journey for milkweed. So these little things ate and pooped and grew like nobodies business! So much fun to see the life cycle and at a speed the children could really appreciate! We saw one of them actually transform from the 'J' formation into a chrysalis, pretty amazing! A few pictures:

'J' Formation

Monarch Condo :)

Back to the Books!

We started back to school this week. Little Miss was quite the eager beaver and enjoying things, the boy... well... he'll get there LOL

A few action shots of our first few days!

Cave drawings ~ Prehistoric Artwork

Loving Math U See

Grammar ~ Nouns :)

August Happenings

Well much like every other family out there we've been busy!! Here are some pictures of our last few weeks of fun :)

Winogradsky - August

A touch late but I did take the picture on time LOL