Being the “good” scientist that he is, Nathan “always” wears his goggles when performing an experiment (LOL). This experiment involved two cups each with seeds planted in them. One was grown in the refrigerator. The other in our light hut. We were suprised that the one in the refrigerator actually …

The botany teachers found this fun project at one of our local stores after searching all over for them. It was very cool to watch the plant grow to the point that we could finally read the secret message. Here is Josh taking care of his Secret Message bean. You …

Amanda really likes biology. However, she doesn’t really like a lot of the experiments. She didn’t like dissecting the eyeball. Today she had to test her blood type and she wasn’t thrilled with having to poke her finger hard enough to bleed. She wanted me to do it and, of …

Emily takes an art class a couple of times a month from a friend a college friend of Amanda’s who is majoring in art and wants to become an art teacher. Here is their latest project which required gluing a hard back book. NOT ANY OF MINE! We went to …

It doesn’t really seem quite right to post this right in the middle of all the Christmas decorating and reminiscing posts, but here goes. This blog entry comes with a *****WARNING — DO NOT GO ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH***** I can hardly stand to look at …

CONSTITUTION STUDY: Emily enjoyed reading these three little books to Nathan. They are such CUTE little books. These are stories about the three branches of government told by mice. We read the White House mouse book last year before we went to the White House while in DC last year. …

These posts are a little late, but here we go. In Sept we studied the Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies. It was fun to look back through pictures of our vacation from last year to the east coast which you can look at by clicking on the vacation label to …

I can’t find a link to the Scholastic book, Going on a Leaf Hunt, that the botany teachers read to the little kids but it was SO CUTE! They read the book while searching all over the building for various types of leaves which had been preplaced around the building. …

Our bean plants aren’t doing too well. We brought them out from the light hut a few days ago and put them in the window. They were doing really well until they were watered too much. One day I noticed there was water SITTING in the cup and the plants …

The botany class dissected plants that were donated by a local florist. The project Josh did in class was too large to fit into his nature journal so I had him dissect a carnation here at home. Thanks to the flowers my parents gave us for our anniversary I just …