Apologia General Science Experiment 11.1 Minerals in Bone

Apologia General Science Experiment 11.1 Minerals In Bone

This experiment was similar to the one we did a few months ago--where we put a limestone in a glass of vinegar and the vinegar ate the lime from the stone.  In this experiment the vinegar is eating the calcium/minerals and leaving the collagen behind.  The stiff bone will turn into a flexible/bendable bone.  

*Update: wow, is the bone like a rubber-band now!  It is completely bendy and rubbery.  

We had to specially buy a whole chicken to get a wishbone, to do the experiment how it was specified.  Easy experiment to do, once you have the bone!

After a week in the vinegar, the bone went all rubbery!

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Sparta Parade July 16, 2016 Northern Lights Homeschool Band Sparta, MI.

Sparta Parade 

July 16, 2016 

Northern Lights Homeschool Band

Patriotic Parade Sequence:

https://youtu.be/NaGZU9i79a8

National Emblem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaC1wEenU68&feature=youtu.be

Saturday was our fourth parade this summer.  Our band was in the Sparta, MI. parade.  We used their bleachers to take this years band photo.

There are over two hundred students in the marching band this year.  There was an announcer describing the band as we marched through the center of town, and she said that we are the largest homeschool band in the United States.  She also shared that there are three other homeschool bands---but, I don't know where they are located.  It is nice to know there are other homeschool bands out there!

It is hard to capture their dance routine in photo's, but this picture does a little.

Here is Dd marching along!

I always show the front, older color guard, so this week I wanted to focus on the younger color guard that brings up the rear.

This picture shows the comparison between a Tenor Sax and Dd's smaller Alto Sax.  Dd is on the right side, playing her sax.

After the actual parade, the band performed a "special" music program dedicated to patriotic songs.  I'm not sure who the special was planned for, but, all of us parents and families really enjoyed our special show.  Dd had been practicing for weeks, learning the new material.  It was one of my old Fleur de Lis Girls Camp songs: This is MY Country...Land of my birth...This is MY Country...grandest on earth!...

These six fellow's were jamming up a storm before the parade.  It was really great hearing them enjoy music so much.

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