seeds in a glove experiment

Remember a few weeks ago we went to the Children's Museum and did a science experiment--we put 4 different seeds into a clear glove with a cotton ball and some water.  Here are the recent pictures from this week.  We took Dd's seeds out a week ago and planted them in this planter.  Today we planted my seeds into the same planter.  It was cool watching the roots grow - I could see through the clear plastic; but decided it was time to plant the plants as they were outgrowing the glove.

May 2, 2012 we made the seed gloves

June 3rd, 2012- our seed gloves are outgrowing the gloves

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Pix of our backyard

The compromise we made by moving into this neighborhood is that we can look out our back windows and see this--and pretend we are in some open space.

Week 2 of no Sonlight (May 28 -June 2nd 2012)

Our week--without Sonlight still.  I am adjusting fine.  I think I could just about go solo at this point; but I just love my IG!  Monday was Memorial Day so we didn't get book stuff done; but Dd did get a lot of learning in. Dh took Dd fishing and she got 2 fish!  I stayed home this time; so no pictures.  She made a wonderful  Memorial Day lunch for us- baked cod; and salt-baked potatoes.  There are pictures below on the next post of her creations.  This week she also made cookie bars with a friend on a play date; and then made cookie bars again on Friday.  I am thinking she is in a cookie mood! LOL!  As a family we worked HARD on our gardens on Monday to finish up our projects.  We went through the big delivery of mulch that had been delivered--it is all gone!

Dh is reading The Wind in the Willows to Dd in the evenings.  He had never read this story, so he is enjoying it as much as we are.  Dd and I have read that story over and over as it is one of our favorites.

Our lessons in a nutshell:

Bible:
Who Is God? by Apologia
James MacDonald:Walk in the Word: 1 Samuel: Lessons from King Saul's Life




Music:
Praise and Worship CD: Amazing Grace was our song for the week
Piano-daily

Math:
Math U See: Delta: 18 F
Teaching Textbooks: lesson 97,98,99, and Quiz 14

Science:
SL Science 3: Week 20 & 21
Stereo Microscope--viewed the slides she made at the Children's Museum
DVD: Bill Nye the Science Guy: "Digestion" 

Language Arts:
AAS-Step 17 and reviews (step 13 & the 1-1-1 Rule especially reviewed)
First Language Lessons-Lesson 33
Writing With Ease-Week 21
IEW-Lesson 9: The Lion and the Mouse--all the drafts and the final paper completed.  Dd made a "book" for the story with a coloring on the cover of Kaya (American Girl).

DD Reader's: 
Dear America-Patsy a Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen (finished)
Dear America-A Picture of Freedom-The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl 1859 by Patricia C. McKissack--(in process)

    



Sonlight's Book of Time:
we finally got ALL the Core 3/D pictures cut and glued in!!!! Yay!


Read Aloud:
(*besides The Wind in the Willows)
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner

Story of the World- Vol 3. by Susan Wise Bauer pages 229-247



BrainPop and BrainPop, Jr. --daily

Flashcards:
English From The Roots Up: Greek/Latin flashcards

Audio Book:
Star Wars: Phantom Menace: Episode 1

Activities:
Biked Tues, Wed.,Thurs, and long one on Friday (I walked Sophie).  One playdate; one library visit, one turn fishing, coloring, drawing, knitting, piano, baking, and lots of gardening.

Memorial Day Weekend

• Click on "May 15" (on the side bar) to see updated garden pix as the summer goes on you can see how our garden is growing!  Dd made/baked Breaded Cod.  She did a fantastic job making us lunch.  Dh made the salad to go along with Dd's meal.  The lettuce is from our garden!

Food, Flowers, Fun and Gardening! Our Memorial Weekend:

Dd made this Salt Potato dish from a recipe she saw on a cooking show--amazing!

Dh "smoked" these wonderful pork ribs for hours (slowly) in the grill-all I can say is "WOW"

"What I do?"

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