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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published April 12, 2011 · Last modified March 3, 2016
Here are the other two experiments LD and the girls did. It sure was nice just stepping back to watch the kids do this themselves this time round. Color Changing Milk 1) Pour milk onto a plate 2) Add three drops of food coloring (red, blue, yellow) 3) Place a Q-tip in dishsoap. Then carefully place the Q-tip in the center of the plate without moving it around. The colors...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published April 11, 2011 · Last modified October 22, 2015
LD was itching to do some of his old science experiments this morning. We had all of the directions collected on a 3X5 ring (from when we did them a year+ ago). LD leafed through and chose several experiments. Here is the first one he and the girls did. It’s been over a year since we last did this experiment, but it still had a real “wow” factor for all...
LD actually told me, “Mom, I like reading more than TV!” In the past few weeks he has zoomed through a fantasy series called Beast Quest and he would read one and often two books a day! The series is about a young boy who goes on a quest to release various beasts from a spell that was placed on them (the beasts protect their kingdom). I’ve always loved sci...
ED (age 3) needs more work identifying her numbers 4-9 and counting consistently with one-to-one correspondence. This is an action game I put together for her to work on some of her preschool skills. There are two dice:1) with the numbers 4 through 92) with the shapes — star, square,oval, rectangle, circle and triangle There’s a game board with 24 spaces and these symbols on them. There are wooden numbers...
Today we used wool to make fairies. We were going to use a fairy kit, but somehow wound up with skeins of fairy wool instead, so we had to make due with a bead and some ingenuity! But the girls love the end product and that’s all that matters. Here we tied the arms in a knot. We also tied a bit of wool around the end of the arms...
I heard an interview on NPR this past week about a live camera feed in Iowa on an eagle’s nest. As the gentleman was speaking he panned in and out on the eaglets. As of few days ago two of the eggs had hatched (one April 2nd and one April 3rd) and one more had yet to hatch: http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles **Update — the third egg hatched last night. You can see...
This has been a very hard year for us. We’ve been here in the house just 8 months and we’ve had upper-respiratory infections, the flu, pneumonia, strep — twice, ear infections, weird rashes (all of this hitting most everyone in the family)… and this past week we’ve had gastro (my guess is rota-virus). It started with ED early last week. Then we went out of town to visit Grandma and...
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