Author: Jennifer
•5:14 AM
Daisies & Celery Yesterday would have been day 7 of our experiment. If anyone was watching their flowers and celery at home, I hope you got to see some color change. You can see a little blue in our daisies in the picture, but the camera didn't get a very good shot of the color. And the celery tops have red edges.. again seen better in person. The salt water daisies and celery died. Why do you think that happened? Do you think they were able to absorb water? Why?
Yucky Potatoes anyone?
So, what happens when you leave sliced potatoes in water? They rot! Yuck! The purpose of that experiment was to see if the potatoes would absorb the color short term... it happened pretty quickly. They were green in a matter of a few hours.
Hope you all had fun with that experiment. We'll have a couple more to do next Monday when we have our pizza!
Author: Jennifer
•5:40 PM
Absorption experiment day 3
Salt water on the left, fresh water on the right.... what's going on with the daisies on the left? We're starting to notice some specs of blue in the daisies on the right and some lines of red in the celery on the right. The celery on the left seems to be sinking. :-) The bottom of it is shrivelling up. I trimmed off the bottom of both of the celery to help them absorb water. We'll see how they look tomorrow!
Author: Jennifer
•8:11 AM
This post is for AHG families and anyone else that wants to follow along without experiments.
REQUIREMENT #2We started the absorption experiment this week. All of the girls received flowers to bring home... some of the flowers lasted, some of them were disected. (For those who disected their flowers, I recommend Apologia Botany for study. :-) They're obviously very interested in flower parts... how encouraging!)
In class, we did an absorption study on coffee filters and paper. The filters absorbed and the paper did not. We prepared celery, potatoes and white daisies for the absorption study. The cups on the left have salt added to the water. I will post pics as there are noticeable changes. I will bring them for the girls to check out next Monday night. In the meantime, feel free to duplicate the experiment at home, discuss it and have your child bring her results next Monday night.
Author: Jennifer
•7:52 AM
This post is for AHG families and anyone else that wants to follow along without experiments.
REQUIREMENT #1If your child missed last week, we did requirement 1 on the Kitchen Scientist badge. You can get a copy of the tongue diagram we used here:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/anatomy/tongue/label/labeltongue.shtmland here for the answers:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/anatomy/tongue/label/labeltongueanswers.shtmlI set up four cups of mysterious drinks for testing.
1. sugar water (sweet)
2. lemon water (sour)
3. salt water (salty)
4. bitter water (cooled black coffee)
After they took a
small taste, they identified which category these would be and labelled their cups. Then, they stuck their finger in and tested each substance on different locations of their tongue. They found that some areas were more sensitive to the different tastes. :-)
Author: Jennifer
•8:42 AM
Right after Christmas, we did a service project with our scout troop. We planted 20 trees at the church that charters the troop.
I have several other pictures of all of us in action, but I don't have permission to post them here. If your in the scout troop, check on the yahoo group.
Author: Jennifer
•1:17 PM
I think this blog thing is easy enough for me to keep updated. So, here are a few benchmarks...
Taylor recently graduated to a brown-black belt in Karate. Boy, she has really stuck with it. Suzanne Sherwood is her favorite instructor. The Sherwood family is also a homeschool family and a rather large family I believe. Some of her family is in our scout troop.
Daniel got to attend a cooking class recently where he got to make green eggs and ham! It was the cutest thing. This place is called Young Chef's Academy. They offerred a free introductory class. We couldn't pass that up! He got to cut, stir, and cut an egg among other fun things!
Oh, and we won't forget our unit celebration! We dressed as Hebrews and Egyptians to display our hard work in our Tapestry of Grace homeschool co-op (TOGNESA). We're studying ancient history this year and we're having a lot of fun! The theme of our unit celebration was the Jewish traditional Sukkot. We had a Sukkah and ate some yummy food. Lisa Bell made a bunch of Challah bread that was wonderful! The kids presented a Tower of Babel play. There were a couple of other wonderful presentations... but I could go on and on. Our next unit celebration will be in January, theme to be "International Dinner'!
This is a picture of our wonderful American Herirage Girl Tenderfoot 2-3 group. This is our 3rd year with this scout troop and we love it! It is a homeschool scout troop with over 30 families I believe from the San Antonio and surrounding areas. Don't think homeschooling is popular? These kids are smart and very well socialized if you wanna go there. :-)
Wow... I have so many pictures to catch up on. Guess there's always time to add on. So, I'll work on that later.
Daisies & Celery 
The first pic is with Mr. Payne (I don't know if he changed his name :-)... owner of the studio and instructor for the advanced level. In the middle and end are Mr. Ruiz and Mr. Abraham.
