Aug. 4, 2008 - Education
We started regular education last Monday. That first week is always fun...but, the second week is turning out pretty hopeful too.
I have went over schedule after schedule after schedule in my head. Schedules. They seem to be something that you have to stay on...yikes. Then I thought.....why does it have to be a schedule? After going over the subjects that we have chosen for this year, I decided. Five a day. I have heard of five in a row books. But I thought....why not five a day. So we have our 'schedule'.....
Day One (which could be any day of the week) five subjects
Day Two, ditto
Day Three, ditto
Day Four, ditto
Day Five, ditto
I have listed each days' subjects on a 4 x 6 card.
The card for the day will be on the fridge. When those items are done, in whatever order necessary, then we are done for that day with 'book-learnin'. (some days DO have additional requirements, but all in all, we concentrate on FIVE)
So, that leads up to why I like the flexibility of home education. For one, we will take a day off soon to 'field trip' on over to the Indiana State Fair. Second, when we got to history....well......last week we were introduced to absolutism. One thing led to another, and now we know a lot about Russia (a country that I personally knew little about). We were just innocently studying monarchs, etc. and came upon czars. So we looked up some info on czars, which led to Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, killed in 1918 (and thereafter called U.S.S.R.), which led to Anastasia the movie. Good movie. Then some geography on Russia and maps and cool things. Then much to our surprise our new favorite book, BJU Press Cultural Geography for 9th grade had a nice section on Russia. So, let me just say that our 'history' today was three hours long. Tomorrow will bring more on Russia I am sure. But the hours actually sped by because Sweet Maggnolia was so excited learning about this new subject.
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Oct. 4, 2007 - Science Experiment Gone Awry!
I was actually excited about seeing maggots. Looking forward to it really. Sweet Maggnolia and I had set up the experiment, "Meat to Maggots" to prove that spontaneous generation is a myth. We sat the three jars with a small portion of raw meat each, in a small plastic tub. One with no top, one with cheese cloth banded around the top and one with plastic wrap banded around the top. We then placed this inside a wire dog cage OUTSIDE on the back porch out of threat of rain AND OUT OF THREAT OF CRITTERS TOO----WE THOUGHT. Our cats didn't bother it. The first night, the jar with cheese cloth on it had been 'tampered with', the jar knocked over and the cheese cloth removed. We corrected this problem and the next night.....what appears to be a critter with long arms and small hands and perhaps a MASK, visited our experiment. The next morning, all three jars were knocked over, all tops removed and each of the three pieces of meat were GONE. Maggnolia wasn't as upset as me.....she really didn't want to view maggots. Next time we have some extra meat, we will try it again....
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