We are beginning our unit with Ben Franklin experiments! I've assigned Goosey to look through The Ben Franklin Book of Easy and Incredible Experiments and then choose at least 2 experiments to do throughout the week. Her favorite this week has been separating pepper from salt using a balloon charged with static electricity. She mixed salt and pepper together on a plate and then took a balloon and rubbed it on a wool coat we have. When she placed the balloon over the plate of salt and pepper, the static electricity that built up, pulled the lighter particles of pepper up. She did this experiment quite a few times! Switching gears now, I have always had the best of intentions to use timelines with my kids and even was successful for about a year or so when they were much younger (we had a timeline with pictures going all around the border of our school room and then we moved and no longer had a room to dedicate to school, sigh). So began my struggle with time lines! For awhile I searched the internet for all sorts of different ways to present it in a condensed form but never found anything that really appealed to me so I gave up on timelines! Yesterday however, I came across this really neat idea on timelines here! Not only how to keep them contained in a small space but what to include in them! I like how she uses photos of book covers that they have read and other simple pictures that can be found online! So this week my goal is to have a set of timeline sheets ready to go in a binder so we can begin! :o)
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