So far she's built a catapult which the cat was having fun chasing all the little marbles that were being shot out of it and a board to measure the height. Her experiment was to shoot the marble out of the catapult at different angles and see where it landed on the measuring board.
Everyone has been working away at their science. Speedy is almost done with his Apologia Biology book, Rosey has a science research paper for CC and she has chosen aromatherapy as her topic so she has been busy researching for that. And Goosey is continuing with the Physics set. So far she's built a catapult which the cat was having fun chasing all the little marbles that were being shot out of it and a board to measure the height. Her experiment was to shoot the marble out of the catapult at different angles and see where it landed on the measuring board. The next big project was to make a pulley.
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Goosey is about halfway through Farmer Boy (Little House on the Prairie Book) so she has been making some recipes from The Little House Cook Book. So far she has made popcorn and milk which she has actually eaten before. Donuts, we just added different toppings-powdered sugar, cinnamon sugar, and then Goosey also made a honey glaze by adding honey and milk together. The last thing she made was molasses candy.
All were good except the molasses candy! I don't have a great history with molasses in general (the smell is not something I can tolerate very well) but I thought since Goosey was old enough she could handle the cooking on her own. She did a fantastic job of it but man did it stink up the entire house! When it was all done, she tried it and said it tasted the way it smelled so needless to say, I did not end up trying it! I do want to try it again with her but find a different hard candy to make with corn syrup or a different ingredient. We finished up the Civil War study by having a strawberry party (they were popular during the 1860's). Since they are out of season here now (the prices are high), I limited our strawberry selections to whatever we could make with 4 pints of strawberries! We were able to make strawberry pie, strawberry shortcake, strawberry scones, and we still had some strawberry sorbet that I made last year when we went strawberry picking. I'd like to have this strawberry party again during late spring when we are able to pick fresh berries. While we were waiting for all these delicious strawberry items to bake, we tried to extract the DNA in a few strawberries. This was fairly easy to do! This is the site we used here and it has an explaination on what is happening. Once we had the DNA strand floating the kids looked at it under the microscope!
It's been awhile since I posted! We decided to take a week off of school last month due to the kids other activities and commitments and then the flu and colds decided to take over the household! Before that, the kids had some time to play in the many inches of snow that we have!! They created a snow fort and a snow TARDIS of all things! We also had our annual Valentine's Day party at 4H but this year we decided to add on a spin of Olympic activities! The kids had a lot of fun! We divided the kids into 3 teams and had each team create their own name. Then we played indoor winter games such as the luge (a plastic sled that was pushed across the carpet by each team), skating relay (kids just skated with their socks and passed a baton), and curling which proved to be the favorite event (the kids used feather dusters to fan a balloon and try to get it to the center of a bulls eye taped to the floor without going beyond the circle).
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