Science

Another successful science class under our belt! We continued with our study of solids, liquids, and gases. We did two experiments using plaster of paris (what a great way to show the kids a liquid turning into a solid). We created a volcanic mountain by gooping plaster of paris around a small bottle. The kids chose to paint their "mountain" green and brown. After putting baking soda inside the bottle and adding vinegar mixed with dish soap and red food coloring the lava flowed! We had a great time with the Williams. After the experiments were completed and we had worked on our periodic table lapbook the younger girls decided to "go to the beach"!! The beach picture above is of Beatrice, Taylor, and Ella -- don't forget the suntan lotion :)

Friday

Today we had our science co-op at the Williams house. We continued our solid, liquid, and gas study by making silly putty (what a great way to show a liquid changing into a solid). Benny is holding his sample of the silly putty. We also continued our Periodic Table lapbook (picture shown above). I took these pictures while Abby was at basketball and Taylor was playing with a friend -- so I thought I'd add a picture of what Ben and I did while it was just the two of us. He decided to label a few things. He labeled "trumpet" (I know, it is a french horn -- he insisted on trumpet), a piece of cardboard in the shape of a CD he labeled "clock", labeled a bag of knights "knight", and wanted to label a container with the label "specials" (a place to put all of his treasures).

Science

Yesterday was a very full day! We had a friend of Taylor's over to our house for a good part of the day. In the middle of the day we had our co-op science class with the Williams family. We studied the 3 phases of matter (solid, liquid, and gas) and ended up completing about 4 experiments. The first picture above shows (with the help of cornstarch) how something can be a solid and if left alone can turn into a liquid and the other picture shows a balloon filling up with gas after combining baking soda and vinegar (unfortunately the other balloon burst and sent baking powder flying).