Fossils and LEGO

We’ve been doing school through the summer for a few years now, so it’s nothing new to the kids when the sounds of warm weather reach us in our school room, windows open and light breeze beckoning us to bask in the sunshine with our read alouds. By design our schedule is less packed in […]

It’s a blubbery, blustery day…

…for science, that is. I somehow picked the coldest day of the year (so far) to do our whale blubber science experiment. The freezing weather fit right in with the theme of our day. The idea of the experiment was to re-create the Arctic-cold temperatures of water that whales regularly swim in. We then submerged […]

Apologia Swimming Creatures Ocean Box

Words fails to express how excited the girls are for this year’s major science project. Swinging from the ceiling fans would be an understatement. Having used Apologia for all of our science thus far (this is our third year with them) we have never done a project of this magnitude and duration. We are going […]

The dead ants are raised

We love science around here, especially when it comes time to do projects like the one we completed this past week. We’re going through Apologia’s Young Explorers series (Flying Creatures). After studying the three parts of an insect, we learned that an insect’s abdomen is used for breathing, and it has special tubes called spiracles […]

Gliders in flight

Today we did our first science experiment for the year. I could never get away with building or preparing anything science-related without all the kids getting on board, so this particular experiment was offered during awake hours because I knew it would be a huge hit. Our science curriculum this year is centered around flying […]

Not slogging yet!

We are almost a quarter of the way through our year. It feels like I’m accomplishing a lot just by doing school with the girls during the summer while all the other kids are playing outside and going on vacation. Silly, I know, but I have a great sense of commitment to getting through all […]