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EGG-celent Chemistry
Thursday, April 3, 2008
**This experiment was originally done the week of march 3rd. However, I never quite got around to posting the photos until now. **
Here are photos from DD's week-long experiment on the effects of acid (vinegar) on calcium (egg shell.)
Click to enlarge photos.
 Fresh, raw egg immersed in vinegar.
 The three "naked" eggs now submersed in liquids: tap water, salt water, and vegetable oil.
(The latter was later changed to corn syrup when this experiment was
done again for a science fair in April.)
 The resulting eggs next to a regular, raw egg with shell intact.
(Results: tap water egg acquired the most water and expanded the greatest, followed by the
salt water egg. The oil egg didn't appear to gain any additional water but also didn't seem
to lose any. When this experiment was repeated in April, the corn syrup egg lost much water,
thus resulting in a shriveled and collapsed egg.)
 Kiddo with a face that tells you she didn't much care
for the smell of this experiment. LOL
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Literature Fair 10/2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Last week my daughter participated in the literature fair that our homeschool group put on. With only a week to work on it (she didn't decide till then that she wanted to even be in it) she pulled out all the stops and created a display board that really made her proud.
(Click for image for a larger version)
This was her first display board she's ever made on her own. (A prior one for our SOUTH AFRICA display for a geography fair she merely "helped" with, with me doing most of the planning, layout, and assembly, with her doing the LEARNING during our geography lesson time that month.)
A week prior, when she said wanted to participate instead of just attend, my one criteria for her was that SHE had to do it. She'd have to plan it and make it. In the end, the only thing I did for it was to print out the various headings and board title and staple all the stuff to the board.
(left hand side) On the board she has a write up of each of the characters along with a sketch. She described the characters very well.
(middle) Top portion is a watercolor of the main character in front of her dragon. Next to that she wrote about the character, conflict, and resolution. Below that is a map of Dragonsdale and a brief setting overview write up.
(left hand side) At the top are two dragon sketches she made. These are representative of some of the dragons in the book. Finally, at the bottom, is a list of both human jobs and dragon jobs within the book.
She cut out and glued all the parts. It took her a while to decide exactly how to lay everything out on the display board... she wanted to get it "just so" ya know! (She was THRILLED that her selection of a black display board made everything "pop" just as she hoped it would.)
At the literature fair, in front of her display board she set up her "Snuffy" stuffed dragon and the book. As a reminder of the book I had whipped up some small bookmarks (address labels on cardstock) for passersby to pick up as they visited her display, so those were laid out in front, too.
One of the most fun parts of the literature fair was the various edible goodies people brought to represent food from their book. My DD knew right away what she wanted.... vegetable soup, bread, and cheese. Well, I opted out of the veggie soup (LOL) but did agree to the bread and cheese. Using a layered cake container I have she had cheese, two types of bread and some cinnamon butter I made. Suffice it to say there was NOTHING left after the 90 minutes we were there!
All in all this was a FABULOUS experience for her. I was so pleased to see her commit to this project and really hunker down with getting it all completed. Everything for her display were original writings of her own. I merely went through and wrote down spelling errors she had and she corrected them. She especially liked her watercoloring and we'll be buying a frame for it so she can hang it in her room. She wants to take all the other things from the board and put them in a fairy/dragon notebook she has and adds to from time to time. (So very glad I only STAPLED things to the board!)
This wasn't a "mind stretching" book for her by any means. LOL It was one she'd read in the not so distant past as fun, free reading (she loves fairies and dragons) that she enjoyed. It was the one she picked so I let her. She owned this project from start to finish and she just shined the evening of the literature fair, truly proud of herself and her work.
It was so fun to see all the kids' amazingly different displays. Some had models, some had simple typed, one-page write ups. Some kids dressed up as a character in their book (my DD did) and one kid even brought their dog! (Was representative of the main character, also a dog, in the book.) I especially enjoyed seeing the wide age range of participants. There was at least a couple of 6 year olds there (though two displays might have even been preschool) and some highschool kids. It was just so neat to see everyone jump in and share what they could/would/desired to... at THEIR level. Very neat, indeed.
My DD has already told me she DOES want to participate in the spring science fair, so I'll keep that in mind. 
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BBOEH (French & Indian War)
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
BBOEH (Patrick Henry)
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Because she read ANNIE HENRY: Adventures in the American Revolution (because it was so tempting and inviting she said) earlier than planned in our Tapestry of Grace program, she notebooked Patrick Henry a while back.
 Two page spread
 (left) Copywork of part of P.H's famous speech opened up
and (right) a fan book of facts about P.H. fanned out.
**Those studying Patrick Henry, be sure to download the free memory work sheet of an excerpt of his famous speech. My daughter has it nearly perfected (we just started it two weeks ago as a "revisit" with Patrick Henry) and she's really enjoyed memorizing it! I hope to add her oration of it as a mp3 file here at my blog later this month.
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BBOE History (Colonies)
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Here are some photos of some old pages of my daughters BBOE History (Big Book of Everything History) using Tapestry of Grace Unit 2. These have been done for ages but I never got around to shooting/uploading them until today.
 Two page spread- full
 Map opened up depicting the three types of colonies.
 3-flap book about colonial social classes opened up
 Middle graphing flap lifted
 Booklet (purple) about colonial schools opened and one of the clothing flaps lifted
 Map under that clothing flap opened up
 Another map revealed
 And another map
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Keyword Outline Sample - French & Indian War
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Wrapping up our study of the F&I War, one of the final assignments was to practice making a KWO.
After making the outlines, DD then gave her "narration" from just her outline. She did a great job!
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Earth Science Lapbook...
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
We haven't made a lapbook in quite some time. (You can view some of the ones created during my daughter's preschool and kindergarten years.) But, for whatever reason, a lapbook called out to us to be made over the course of our recent earth science study. Here's what's been made so far (still have minerals, fossils and few other things to do, but she wanted to get back to astronomy, so we did.)
**The cover has not been decorated/created yet,
thus that is ommitted here for now.**
First opening of lapbook.
Left hand side with circle book holder opened (circle book at the top),
vocab (at bottom) partially opened up, and middle types of plate movement opened a bit.
Vocabulary (top) flaps and mini-books made while studying 3 types of rocks.
Then, you turn the right hand page to reveal another two-page spread:
Left hand side flap is down (closed) with tactile worksheet my daughter did showing.
Flap opened up to show another worksheet she put together (top) as well as a "pie" she wrote up from the notes she took while studying gemstones.(Need to make a GEMSTONES label for this still... oops!)
Right hand page... yep, on volcanoes. Shows types of volcanoes "flaps" on the left, foldable on the right.
Volcano types flaps opened up one level.
Volcano types flaps opened to the second level, as well as the foldable diagram of inside a volcano.
Turn the lapbook page again and we come to this next two-page spread:
Left hand page with the booklet opened up to reveal the 4-stage drawing of how a geyser works.
Turn that illustration sheet page and the written narration is below: 
Right hand page:
Each illustration on the movement of a glacier down a mountain can be lifted.
As seen here:
With short informational sentences on the movement.
And, though we don't have enough in the lapbook on CRYSTALS to show here (yet), my daughter and husband did do the science project together, creating a gorgeous crystal garden.
This was taken about a week after the garden was formed, thus the crystals started to weigh down and fall off. But, it still holds a place on our countertop!
And, we may return soon to earth studies (and add more to the lapbook) or it may be a few years before we're back to it (I try to follow the WTM rotation of science loosely)... we'll have to wait and see! |
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Page 1
Page one opened up with the 
Pages 2 and 3
Left hand page: Proclamation of 1763 
Two-page spread
Second page of "things she remembered from her readings about beavers."
