in homeschool today...

No need to wait for film at 11....we'll all be asleep or scrapping then:) Weird Science: The super fun thing about science for my kids is it is all so fun. Now - we had these skeletons that they got in some goody bag about a year ago. I pulled them out a few days ago and we read the instructions. Place in room temp. water for 72 hours. Ok - so the kids learned what room temp water is and we figured up how long 72 hours lasted. Then we guessed (hypothesized) what would happen. Then we had our little experiment. Today we talked about what they fould feel like, how heavy they would be, would they be the same size, etc. We measured these guys. We guessed how many inches they would shrink back to. We made a chart with our guesses. We are now gonna wait and see and collect data. Now, these little skeletons were free. I do no know exactly how or why they expand over 3 days and then get small again. But the groovy thing is the kids and I are coming up with all kinds of reasons why this happens. Talking about evaporation, etc. The thing I want them to learn is the process of the scientific method. I share this because it is an example of how you can have a science lab that pulls in all diff subjects for free. My kids wrote 0 to 100 for the first time today. Alex's was just so messy it was cute. More fun with a scanner! I just realized that along with scanning their art work... I need to scan writing samples too:) The David and Goliath play. They selected their own costumes for this. They also cast themselves as David as Goliath and Alex as David. Now, David pretty much only wore costumes for like 2 years - so we have a lot. (we are so the people at Target the day after Halloween rummaging thru all the tangled mess) They had lines and did a very nice job with this. Tomorrow the kids start memorizing the full speech of David to Goliath. Our minister said he was taught this speech as a kid. He said his father (Charles Stanley) told him to recite that speech in his head whenever he encountered temptations or fears. COOL! It is full of guts and good stuff so the boys are gonna love it. Sure beats memorizing the beginning to the Canterbury Tales. Finally - the pic of me. Only in lipstick 'cause our Bible study pals are coming over for game night in a few minutes. When in doubt of your ability to teach when pondering if the kids have retained anything at all when you need to feel like it really is working wear this shirt. I got it last year (on clearance of course:) from Old Navy It says: My kid is a genius. Do you know how many people have asked me "really?" Oh yeah. The Mensa Society was at the hospital handing these shirts out to all the new genius moms. I don't say that. I just think it. Dude. I BOUGHT the shirt. Alex asked me today if the shirt was about him. Sweet kid. I said all my boys were very smart about different things. He seemed to accept that. Ok - so there is a slice of our homeschool day. There was some spelling, etc. Alex had guitar lessons. David is working on making a book. (he loves to use my punches for that - hey...that makes my scrapbook stuff educational! If only I could take a tax deduction for that) Happy Monday night to ya! kelli