My husband was on vacation this week, so let's see how school went.
To start with, let's look at what we watched, listened to, and read.
Can you swim in a pool of jello? We followed this up, of course, with making four kinds of jello to do a taste test. And we read this definition:
"To make Jell-O, you need to heat the gelatin in water. Heating breaks the bonds holding the collagen together. Next, the heated water-gelatin solution must be cooled, allowing the collagen strands to rebond in a network, but now with water trapped inside. The collagen network gives Jell-O its semisolid properties, while the trapped water keeps it jiggly." - From LiveScience
Can you swim in a pool of jello? We followed this up, of course, with making four kinds of jello to do a taste test. And we read this definition:
"To make Jell-O, you need to heat the gelatin in water. Heating breaks the bonds holding the collagen together. Next, the heated water-gelatin solution must be cooled, allowing the collagen strands to rebond in a network, but now with water trapped inside. The collagen network gives Jell-O its semisolid properties, while the trapped water keeps it jiggly." - From LiveScience
We had a blind taste test after supper and it was hilarious.
Making a (mostly) accurate reproduction 15th century princess dress Part 1 and Part 2.
Tetraflexagons! Weird shapes that are not spheres but still roll! Restoring a rusty axe!
Mudlarking!
Mudlarking!
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives - Peasants.
We made God's Eyes! And looked up the definition of 'tension' in the dictionary. I had the children make their God's eyes in blue/white/grey sort of colours so that we could use them as window snowflakes for winter decoration, which hasn't happened yet because I haven't done any indoor decorating.
Conversations... on what courts have looked like over the years, deciduous and coniferous trees (and the inevitable discussion on the difference between coniferous/carnivorous), what is a skeleton key, is the cat as old as Grandma in human/cat years?
We made God's Eyes! And looked up the definition of 'tension' in the dictionary. I had the children make their God's eyes in blue/white/grey sort of colours so that we could use them as window snowflakes for winter decoration, which hasn't happened yet because I haven't done any indoor decorating.
Conversations... on what courts have looked like over the years, deciduous and coniferous trees (and the inevitable discussion on the difference between coniferous/carnivorous), what is a skeleton key, is the cat as old as Grandma in human/cat years?
Reading lots of books...
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| We read about the rise of Islam, Sindbad, and Chinese Middle-Ages. |
Games on our walks (primarily with the 7yo and 5yo as the 9yo is a bit past most of these)
Playing the alphabet circle game (each person says a letter of the alphabet, in a circle, and if you trip up or make a mistake you're 'out')
Playing the rhyming word game (each person gets a turn to say a word and the others have to come up with a rhyme)
Playing 'Would You Rather?' - "Would you rather be see-through or have apple seeds fall out of your mouth every time you talk?" "Would you rather turn into a cow for 5 minutes at six p.m. every day, or have to do a math problem every morning first thing when you woke up?"
The 9yo and I pacticed adding and multiplying fractions by quadrupling a waffle recipe - made even more exciting by the fact that I couldn't find the 1/3 cup measure so we needed to make an equivalent with the 1/4 measure.
Tangrams, Legos, clay...
We went places, too! Swimming lessons, piano lessons, doctor's appointments, grocery shopping, and the usual things we do every week. We visited the library in the next town over and also the one where we live and took out a stack of books. We went out at night to an annual Holy Walk where the Christmas Story is acted out in living tableaux while you are guided through a park by lantern light.
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