Inside The Brain of a Homemaker

Monday, April 5, 2010

Homeschooling April 5th

Our homeschool day started out quite self-directed. Christian and Porter worked on an experiment. They put a blue and yellow jellybean in hot water and a blue and a yellow jellybean in cold water. They were seeing if they would dissolve. Christian copied his findings in his notebook. The hot water ones dissolved more quickly.

They got a toy that expands in water. Christian tied it to the fosset so that only the head would read the water below. He was trying to see if only the head would get bigger or if the rest of it would too. He found that the water was sucked up by the head and dispersed through all of the duck.

I like that kind of learning.

Later in the day they watched High School Musical 3 and on the commercials we did school. We all learned a little more about the solar system and how it all works together so perfectly. Then we recored this past weekend in our journals and each child drew a picture. Porter read to me for his school from ABEKA readers. Warrick worked on his workbook about numbers. Christian worked on division and started two digit division. C and I played a division game. He also read from the book about Eddie Rickenbaucher as a child. He did two cursive pages in Cursive Without Tears.

Now Christian and Porter are playing and Warrick and Stafford are resting.

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