Apologia General Science Experiment 3.2 Which "Boat" Will Move?

Apologia General Science 

Experiment 3.2

Which "Boat" Will Move?

We drew out four "boats" from a sturdy piece of cardboard.  We bought the nifty kit with supplies, but the cardboard we had to provide.  They provided scissors, tissue paper, one piece of gum, and a hotel size piece of soap.

Dd was ever-so-happy to chew up the gum for the experiment.  We had to place the gum, soap, and tissue paper in the cut out triangle at the stern (back) of our boat.  There was one boat without anything attached to it--this was our "control" boat.

Here Dd is placing the items on each boat.  The goal was to have the same size for each item placed, so no boat had a bigger "motor" than the others.

Meanwhile the water was filling in our bathtub---three inches in depth was the target.

Then we placed all four boats in the water.  The "control" boat (with nothing attached to the back of the boat) started to curl a little in the water; with the sides turning up.  The gum boat began to immediately start sinking.  None of our boats actually moved--see below.

SO! this experiment told us that the boat with the piece of soap on it was sure to move forward and our boat did NOT!  We are always the ones that don't have the same result that is told will happen.  

Dd got some dish soap (liquid) and squirted behind the boats to see them move.  Two of the boats sank before she could squirt them (the gum and tissue boats).


If we were to do follow-up experiment; we thought it would be interesting to have the boats like before, only this time have four different brands of soap.  Then we could see how Dove vs. Ivory vs. Dial vs. hotel brand.  Our experiment "failed" to do what they said it would, but we enjoyed doing it.

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Core G Week 19 "A" BiblioPlan Wk 5 Middle Ages Jan 11-17, 2016

Core G 

Sonlight Week 19 "A" 

BiblioPlan Wk 5 

Middle Ages

 Jan 11-17, 2016

Bluejay



Another week of winter under our belts, and we are getting closer to spring.  This week I really got my workout with shoveling snow!  I literally spent hours doing it.  The old, 1960's or perhaps 1970's snow-blower that had been left here broke.  Dh went to Lowe's and bought new pins, and fixed it.  Then it broke again, and he fixed it again, and then it broke again.  Therefore all the shoveling on my part!!!  I don't think it much of anything this week, except taking time out of Dh's few hours off.

Dark-Eyed Junco

I'm not sure if I mentioned in my post last week that Dh took us for a long drive towards Lansing last Sat. to look at a used truck that was in our price range.  I think it was about one hour and twenty minutes each way to the place.  The truck rode well, and we bought it, but the tires were BALD!  Poor Dh couldn't get up our hill with those old, useless tires---he had to walk up our hill each night, in the dark.  I prayed and prayed for him to find a place that would sell snow tires that fit his truck and that he could get there before they close.  Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday yielded no tires, so I prayed more, and then on Thursday evening he got the right place, the right time, and was their last customer.  This past year has been such a testimony to the power of prayer.  Last year we were in the apartment, with two cars that were not good in the snow, and this January we are in our home---with TWO cars that can drive in the snow! 

This is a Red-Bellied Woodpecker.  

I have to admit I have been kicking myself for picking such a treacherous location for our home.  I'd guess our front driveway is 4-500 feet, and our back driveway is three-times longer, but with a bit of a less steep incline---but, either driveway is steep!  I really didn't think it would be SO difficult and have been regretting my ignorance.  Couldn't we have found a woodsy house without such a hill???!

This is a Tufted-Titmouse.  I have a hard time getting a good picture of them b/c they are so shy.

Monday was particularly snowy, as it had started Sunday morning and snowed all day.  I called our dermatologist to see if I could get out of our appointment without charge due to the road conditions, and they actually were okay with my canceling.  So thankful that I didn't have to make a long drive on such a snowy day.

This is a Dark-Eyed Junco---we have a lot of these!

Wednesday had been our band/choir, but Dd received an email about it being canceled, and so we didn't go.  We found out later that that email was for the classes in Kalamazoo, not Grand Rapids!  Thursday's co-op classes went well, and the roads were pretty good.  It seems much of my prayers this week were about the roads and/or snow!  

This is a Downey Woodpecker---we also get the Hairy Woodpecker, which looks like the Downey; only larger.  Can you see the red spot on the back of his head?  When they have a red spot on the back of their head that signals they are males, the females do not have the red spot.

I could still use prayers for our driving.  And this week I have gone off my GERD medications.  The news came out with a new study that my medicines cause kidney disease, and my doctor told me to stop my medications and try to change my diet.  As I sit here, I am having bad heartburn, but it is my fault....after church we had a big 'Pitch-In" or as they call it in Michigan, "Pot Luck".  I ate too much and am now regretting it!  I also took the advice of a new book I'm reading and tried eating raw potato slices...just a few....but, boy was that a horrible idea.  Raw potatoes, in my stomach at least, do.not.digest! Awful, awful, awful...no details to share.  I am still trying to get over it.

We have LOTS of Bluejays!

This has also been a migraine week for me, I am enjoying a bit of a break right now, but the past two nights have been horrible as the pain keeps waking me up.  Saturday I spent the whole day in bed with ice packs throughout too.  It was the worst spell I've had in a long time--perhaps since G&G were here last summer.  I'm so thankful for my Maxalt prescription, and my nausea medication was 100% necessary.  

I am going to have to accept that we are not going to get lots of material read and this winter, and hope for redemption by our year-round lessons, for it seems that Michiganders don't let the winter slow them down any!

Friday night was Dd's "Girl's Night," and they watched a movie: Do You Believe.  She made cupcakes, and her new special recipe for frosting.  She came home with an empty dish!

Bible:

We finished the book of JOB!  That was a long study!  I'm glad we did it.  It certainly makes it clear that misfortune, bad health, money, and difficulties are for our refinement.  And how important it is to be uplifting to our family and friends during their hard days.

We read each chapter in our bible, then in our Believer's Bible Commentary.
Job: 39-42 (completed Job)

Peril and Peace: Vol. I: Chronicles of the Ancient Church (History Lives) by Mindy and Brandon Withrow

Augustine 

John Chrysostom

Other  Early Christians

(COMPLETED!!!)

Memoria Press: Christian Studies IV: 

pg's: 4 & 5, 14 & 15

repeated reading and trying to memorize info

Trial & Triumph

Middle Ages: Pope Gregory:  

Pg's 53-60

Our Hymn of the Week:

I Surrender All

(youtube had a nice version that we sang along with.)

I really love this hymn.  I just love how it helps us to remember that we must give up ourselves, and our steering in life, and surrender ourselves to being guided and directed by our Lord to do His will.  It is so easy to invite Jesus into our hearts, and still continue to be our own master---it takes a while to get to that next level of understanding in what it means to be a Christian.  It is one thing to hear someone say they are a Christian, but if they have no "fruit" (or loving/kind actions and words) it is hard to see that as the truth.  I do so want to be Jesus's hands and voice in my area--sharing His love and tenderness.

Language Arts:

Thank You Cards

We have been working on our Thank You cards!  

Writing With Skill

Instead of expecting Dd to get through one week in one week, Dd has asked me if she could take two weeks to complete it, as she is working on her own stories already.

All About Spelling 7:

Step 7's additional words, group 2

next week, we will do the last 12 words in the additional words section to wrap this step up.  There were 32 additional words in step 7.

Easy Grammar: Plus

pg:257

This is a Black-Capped Chickadee---we have a lot, but they are very shy.  They are small and very cute!

The Everything American Government Book: From the Constitution to Present-Day Elections, All You Need to Understand...

Jun 4, 2004

by Nick Ragone

Homeschool Co-op Gov't Class (weekly):

Memorizing Romans 13:1

and had a lot of reading to do for her homework--I think she had to read three chapters.  I'm so glad she is getting a good Government class, and I don't have to teach it!  The teacher's youngest daughter is in the KinderKids class that I help in.

Homeschool Co-op's Cake Decorating Class (weekly):

Dd made one batch alone, make the cupcakes and the butter frosting, and then decorated them with different tips to stylize the frosting, for her Girl's Club on Friday night.  Then on Sunday she decorated the cupcakes Pappa made for our lunch with the church (Pitch-In/ Pot Luck).  She is excited that this week, in class, they are suppose to spend the whole class making decorative roses!

She really did a good job on her roses.

Math: Math U See: Algebra I

Lesson 8: all week, and will repeat

We worked on Lesson 8 this week, and will be continuing to get it down next week.  I've figured out to print out the A, B, & C pages BEFORE she writes on them and then I can have her work on the specific parts that are to be learned each week.  This way I can give her a few extra questions that are specific to getting the point down.

Family Read Aloud (Pappa is reading to us):


Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations

Alex Harris, Brett Harris

This is our third tour of this great book.  I highly recommend it.  Instead of thinking teenagers are too moody to make real contributions to our world, the Harris brothers think teens are the perfect age to make this world a better place.  This book really encourages ME (way old, not a "teen") to aim my sights at being just like them, and for me to Do Hard Things!  I can't tell you how many times I've prayed: "Lord, Help me to do hard things, and not take the easy path..."  Even if this book if for teens, I read it to my Dd before she was a teen, and now am so happy to read it to her again when she can understand it in a new way.


Geography:

BiblioPlan Advanced Maps:

Invasion

Justian's Empire

Islam

Current Events:

http://www.cnn.com/studentnews

CNN Student News each morning--each episode is ten minutes long.  They go over some of the main topics that are in the news, and add in some character studies as well.

Music:

Alto Sax--30 minutes per day

Our band gets free access to "Smart Music", which is an online site that helps music students.  It really seems great--they can tune their instrument, have their playing marked as they play to see if they are hitting the right notes, in the right time.  Also, she can learn how to play some of her favorite songs from LOTR and SW! and Emma!  She will play one of her assigned songs, get her score--like 67% and then play it again and improve and get a score like 87% and keep practicing with this, and it shows her what she is doing wrong, and she can keep practicing until she gets it right!

Piano- about 1-2 hours per week

Choir: 15 minutes per day.

I succeeded in keeping Science as a focus for this week.  I am so glad I was able to do it!  I didn't get the MOH or SOTW readings done that I had scheduled, but I will have to live with that.  I'm hoping to keep science as a priority.

Science:

Apologia's Exploring Creation with General Science

Module 2: completed!!

Mod. 2: Scientific Inquiry

Pg's: 49-58

Exploring Creation with General Science: Student Notebook:

pg's: 55-60

Exploring Creation with General Science

MULTI-MEDIA COMPANION (disc)

We watched the animation episodes on the disc for Module 1 & 2

The shows were short and interesting.

Busy Hands:

This is Rey, from the new Star Wars movie.  She is making Ben now.  This picture shows this piece while it was in process---she finished it this weekend.

Dd has been making dolls out of felt.  She finished one that is Rey from Star Wars, and started a second one that is Ben (the bad guy) in Star Wars.  

This picture shows the hair of her doll, Rey.

I've been crocheting a camo yarn scarf.

  
Below is a WREN.  They are so small and adorable!  I never saw a Wren living in Indiana, and am so pleased I have some around our house here in Michigan.  They are just so lovely!  I still have only seen them about 4-5 times, they are a rare sight; which makes it all the more special.

Wren!

 More snow and more sledding this week:

 

 

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Core G Week 18 "B" Middle Ages Jan. 4-9, 2016

Core G 

Week 18 "B" 

Middle Ages 

Jan. 4-9, 2016

I put our bird feeders in two main locations--one right outside our 'library'(homeschool) window, so I can see the birds when I am on the computer or reading / doing our lessons.  The other set of feeders I put exactly where I look when doing dishes.  So, I really get to see birds many hours each day---so great!

IN PROCESS - all my work on this post was accidently deleted, so I am having to rush through and try to put some of the stuff back in.

Hello Friends,  

This week band/choir and co-op started back up.  Dd was really happy to get back to seeing her friends and teachers again. The band & choir had new music to learn, which was exciting.  I think Dd and I both seem to have somehow picked up a bug on our trip to Indiana, so we had a few naps this week to help us get better.  I'm not sure we are 100% yet, but hopefully closer.  

We did get back to science this week, after taking our Christmas studies off from most Language Arts and Science.  Next week Dd will get back to her Writing With Skill.  I hope she will be feeling better and won't be as tired as she was this week; which cut into our study time.

Weather--we had a few nice days this week, but by Friday the cold and SNOW has started back up....prayers appreciated for my driving in all this new snow!  

Our lessons:

Bible:

Job 30, 32, 33, and 38

For our bible lessons, we are still working on the book of Job.  We read each chapter first in our bible, and then in the Believer's Bible Commentary.   This week we read:

Job 30, 32, 33, and 38, and will spend another week on Job before returning back to our Veritas Press bible progam.

I don't know if you have ever read Job 38 before, but I thought it was amazing!  I'll post it here so you can read it too!  

The Lord Speaks

38 Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:

2 

“Who is this that obscures my plans

    with words without knowledge?

3 

Brace yourself like a man;

    I will question you,

    and you shall answer me.

4 

“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?

    Tell me, if you understand.

5 

Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!

    Who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 

On what were its footings set,

    or who laid its cornerstone—

7 

while the morning stars sang together

    and all the angels[a] shouted for joy?

8 

“Who shut up the sea behind doors

    when it burst forth from the womb,

9 

when I made the clouds its garment

    and wrapped it in thick darkness,

10 

when I fixed limits for it

    and set its doors and bars in place,

11 

when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;

    here is where your proud waves halt’?

12 

“Have you ever given orders to the morning,

    or shown the dawn its place,

13 

that it might take the earth by the edges

    and shake the wicked out of it?

14 

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;

    its features stand out like those of a garment.

15 

The wicked are denied their light,

    and their upraised arm is broken.

16 

“Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea

    or walked in the recesses of the deep?

17 

Have the gates of death been shown to you?

    Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?

18 

Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?

    Tell me, if you know all this.

19 

“What is the way to the abode of light?

    And where does darkness reside?

20 

Can you take them to their places?

    Do you know the paths to their dwellings?

21 

Surely you know, for you were already born!

    You have lived so many years!

22 

“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow

    or seen the storehouses of the hail,

23 

which I reserve for times of trouble,

    for days of war and battle?

24 

What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,

    or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?

25 

Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,

    and a path for the thunderstorm,

26 

to water a land where no one lives,

    an uninhabited desert,

27 

to satisfy a desolate wasteland

    and make it sprout with grass?

28 

Does the rain have a father?

    Who fathers the drops of dew?

29 

From whose womb comes the ice?

    Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens

30 

when the waters become hard as stone,

    when the surface of the deep is frozen?

31 

“Can you bind the chains[b] of the Pleiades?

    Can you loosen Orion’s belt?

32 

Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons[c]

    or lead out the Bear[d] with its cubs?

33 

Do you know the laws of the heavens?

    Can you set up God’s[e] dominion over the earth?

34 

“Can you raise your voice to the clouds

    and cover yourself with a flood of water?

35 

Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?

    Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

36 

Who gives the ibis wisdom[f]

    or gives the rooster understanding?[g]

37 

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?

    Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens

38 

when the dust becomes hard

    and the clods of earth stick together?

39 

“Do you hunt the prey for the lioness

    and satisfy the hunger of the lions

40 

when they crouch in their dens

    or lie in wait in a thicket?

41 

Who provides food for the raven

    when its young cry out to God

    and wander about for lack of food?

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Peril & Peace: Chronicles of the Ancient Church: History Lives: Volume 1

Mindy Withrow, Brandon Withrow

Peril and Peace:

Ambrose: Page's:133-144

Christian Studies Book IV, Teacher's Manual

MEMORIA PRESS / 2010 / TRADE PAPERBACK:

we are working on memorizing pages 4,5,& 10

Language Arts:

Easy Grammar Plus Teacher Edition

Easy Grammar Plus

pg's: 245, 249, 251, 252, 253

Thank You Letters:
Three completed this week, more to go!

Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook

Mar 30, 2010

by Ellen Potter and Anne Mazer

Reading - Spilling Ink, on her own, without my assigning it!  I just love that!  She is writing her own stories and wanted some books to help her improve.  She obviously is really liking this one!  So glad!  the author is Ellen Potter and Anne Mazer.

All About Spelling Level 7 Materials

All About Spelling 7

Step 7

Dd passed the Step 7 words, but there were 42 "additional" words that we are working on.  We worked on the first ten words in the additional list.

Math:

Math U See: Algebra I: Lesson 7 passed!

This was our third week on this step, but she kept at it until she really understood it well; and she was able to teach it back to me.  The first week, her test score was 5/15.  Her second time at the test she got 10/15.  This week she scored 15/15!  100% Yay!   Things don't always come easily, but I'm glad we persevere!
We went online to Math U See's "worksheet generator" and they had one page for her to practice on.  I would really think they would be able to generate more than one page!!!  I've had to erase our workbook three times so Dd can repeat the lesson, and I'm afraid she could be memorizing the questions by now!  

Current Events:

CNN Student News:  Daily

History Add-in:

Augustine Came to Kent

Augustine Came to Kent by Barbara Willard: completed

We spent the last two weeks on this book, and found this book very interesting.  This is one of those books that I really wanted to read more than I scheduled! There was one really special scene in this book, where a new Christian got in an accident and died.  Their small group had traveled to a small pagan "town" to spread the good news of God.  The people didn't seem to be at all interested in opening their hearts to the message until one of our main characters got gored by a boar and was dying.  The peaceful way he died spoke to all those people in a way that nothing else would.  After this one character died, the people asked to hear more about 'their God' because they wanted to know how to die like he did--to not be afraid in life and in death.  This book gave me a better idea of what it must have been like trying to spread God's message to the pagan worshipers in Britain.

Science:
 Apologia General Science

We are working on Module 2

I am *really* trying to make our schedule be more science focused.  It is just so much easier for me to focus on Sonlight/BiblioPlan items than science, and I really need to force science up in priority! 
We did experiments 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 and I made a post on just that, so I won't go into it here again. 

Apologia Exploring Creation with General Science, 2 Vol, 2nd Ed.

Dr. Jay L. Wile

Science: Apologia General Science

We are working on Module 2

Pages: 35-48

General Science Notebooking Journal

General Science Student Notebook:
pg's 45-53
I really like how this book makes Dd write down the important parts that she reads, so she gets the material inputted through her ears and hands.







Exploring Creation with General Science, 2nd Edition, Solutions and Test Manual (with Extra Test Booklet)

APOLOGIA EDUCATIONAL MINISTRIES / 2008 / TRADE PAPERBACK

Dd did all the Workbook Pages and experiments

took Test 1: 

General Science Lab Kit

I bought this kit to go along with our science books.

These are the two cupcakes Dd brought home from her cake decorating class at co-op.  One of the most interesting things she learned was important it is to have all your ingredients "room temperature" before mixing and making...especially the butter and milk.  With the frosting, they had to beat their butter for FIVE minutes---she really liked the taste of this frosting.

Dd is taking two classes in our co-op; one is Government and the other is Cake Decorating.  


For her third period she is volunteering to work in the Nursery.  For her Government Class she has to memorize Romans 13: 1:

Let every soul be subject to the government authorities.  For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.

Music:

Alto Sax- 30 min daily

Piano--about 2 hours weekly, 
and Choir--15 minutes daily

Busy Hands:
She made me a MOO PIE
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/moo-less-chocolate-pie-recipe.html
We make it without a crust most times--and I think it is fantastic with or without the crust.  It is made of tofu, chocolate, and a bit of sweetener---and that you can make out of whatever sweetener you prefer.  This is a fairly healthy dessert choice.  
-numerous egg dishes, spaghetti, made a camp fire outside by herself, and then made S'mores.

Fun Books:
Spilling Ink (see Language Art section above)


Art:
Drawing a Hobbit house, and a Hobbit village!  

I just love this picture!

Movie:
We finally went out to see STAR WARS, the Force Awakens!


Chores:
Dd usually does her chores, but this week she really dropped the ball.  I'm sure part of it is due to the fact she isn't feeling well; but it really is disappointing.  Last week she had cleaned her room so well she earned an unexpected surprise prize from me.  I was so thrilled how well she did on her own that I wanted to reward her initiative.  She got a really cool Star Wars figure.  But, this week--she really didn't do 1/2 of her things, and I am going to make sure she does better this week.  I just wanted to share that we have difficulties too.  We were *suppose* to read a chapter of BiblioPlan and Streams of Civilization, this week---but we couldn't fit it in...it is hard to plan a week's lessons ahead of time, when you don't know all the things that pop up last minute--like not feeling well!

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