Inside the bus, son C read a history book to Little Man. We learned about the Vikings this week. Very exciting reading!
Little Man took his first "official" math TEST!
As part of the test he had to build the number "390" and show that he understood place value.
As a class, science happened naturally for us this week. During recess one day a praying mantis was discovered.
It was fairly large.
We found a small grasshopper and fed it to the mantis. In this picture, we're looking at the mantis's belly (he's upside down) and he's holding the yellow grasshopper in his grip, eating it.
We watched him eat the whole thing, talked about life cycles and the food chain, and called it good!
Son G, however, began Apologia General Science this week, and did his first experiment. I remembered from when daughter G did this course that the first experiment was a dramatic one, and I was excited for son G to get to do it.
It involved pouring oil, water, and maple syrup into a glass and then adding 4 different objects. The objects either sank to the bottom or floated on the top of one of the liquids. This demonstrated the existence of atoms, because some liquids and objects have atoms that are less dense than others, allowing other objects/liquids to squeeze through. He had a lot of fun with this, and enjoyed drawing a diagram of it in his lab book.
Fun week! We have a bus similar to yours. I should pull it out and let them use it for school. :-)
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