We had a sickly week, last week. We didn't get very much done; but we managed a little. We went to a used book sale and I got a few more books and some will fit right with where we are right now in history (just what I needed; more add-in's!!!).
We also went to the science museum and had a blast. I won't bore you all with all the details; but the highlights are that we spent about 2 hours in 2 different science lab/science port and made cheese using a pipette! A pipette is this little handheld thingy that you see scientists use on tv and we used it! Plus we had hours of fun in the non-science areas too. They have a Dinosaur area that is amazing. Real paleontologists work there on real fossils; they are behind glass in a lab with the window open so you can talk with them. It is really neat. DD got to go through some rubble and look for real fossils and there was a employee who would tell her what kind of fossil she had found.
We used two different microscopes; one to look at slides and one to look at fossils. Both had the technology to show the image up on a monitor/screen. We are looking for buying a microscope and I was wondering if any of you have one and do you have any 'reviews' for me? dd wants a bi-nocular - the microscope with two eye holes; but that might not be important if we could afford the attachment that shows the image on a screen. That wouldn't happen this year; but we could save up for that in the future.
Anyway-we had a really good time. Our garden is SLOWLY getting planted. We need to get into high gear this week.
We are loving Kit in The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
I am looking forward to hearing how all of you are doing this week.
I also have a prayer request--tomorrow dd and I will go on a field trip to visit a public school for 2 1/2 hours or less. B/c dd has always been such a wonderful, and very difficult child and b/c we struggle so much with getting her to do her lessons we finally decided to go to a therapist. Her suggestion was to go visit a p.s. and let dd see for herself the amount of work average third graders are doing. B/c dd is an only child she feels like she must have so much more work than most; when the reality she doesn't do nearly what some do. She thought this might be a good perspective for her to see.
I am a little nervous about it all. It is over an hour away too and I am not a great directionalist (my word)---I get lost in the brown paper bag type person!
If you have a moment we would appreciate your prayers for this experiment to go well.
May God bless us and guide us throughout this week.
Oh, I've come back to share something you all might be interested in, that we have been enjoying online for months. Here is there website:
www.lamplighterpublishing.com
and they have audio christian stories that are done in a week by week episode or past story episodes too. We have loved the stories so much we have asked (and rec'd) ILL (inter-library loan) copies of the stories so we can listen in our van too. I ordered their catalog so I could have something to look up on paper. But, the stories are old christian character training lessons/stories that build strong christian character. I couldn't give a higher recommendation. I am always looking for good seeds (good stories) to plant in my dd's soil and this resource is free and amazing.
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