Posted in cool sites, science on Dec 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Is it true that no two snowflakes are exactly alike? This wonderful website goes into that question here and also has pictures of snowflakes that are just breathtaking. Think of all the billions of unappreciated works of art falling around us every day! What a magical way to study quantum physics. And they’re pretty.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
…While shaking the real apple cider to distribute the “mother” during your holiday meal, your hubby asks “Okay kids, is this a solution or a suspension?”. And your four year old knows! We have a tradition in our family of having our holiday celebration together on the Solstice (the shortest day/longest night of the year) [...]
Posted in Daily log on Dec 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Just logging this for my own records…. Today we did: Science- We all watched a show about the locust plague that hit the midwest in 1875, which the girls knew about from Little House on the Prairie. Learned a lot about locusts and how to control them. Victoria studied taste buds and cross section microscopic [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Hmmm. It would seem that I have far too much free time and need to take on yet another thing to do every day. Or not! This just seemed like a fun way to track our progress as a homeschool family. Welcome to our life. We are: Victoria– Age 9, book lover, animal lover (especially [...]
