Category: Science
17
Apr
Make Your Own: Atom Board
by Claire
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Have you seen the gorgeousness that is the ETC Atom board? It’s so very pretty. And so very expensive! My kids want to do some...
06
Feb
Mini Geology Unit
by Claire
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We’ve been having some fun with a mini-geology unit lately. We didn’t dive in deep to any particular area, but tried to briefly touch upon...
22
Jan
Identifying Rocks – FREEBIE
by Claire
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We’ve been doing a little bit of geology around here – just a smattering here and there. We did a little rock identification at the...
09
Jan
A Fantastic First Week Back
by Claire
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This week I tried something new. I tried to be more relaxed about when and where we did our work. It’s not easy! I like...
13
Dec
Clay vs Papyrus! Historical Materials Experiment
by Claire
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Ancient Egyptians wrote on papyrus, so of course we used papyrus and learnt about it as part of our study of ancient Egypt. We even...
09
Dec
Ancient Egypt – Week 4
by Claire
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Week 4 was all about language and math! We went all in this week. Aside from a fraction multiplication lesson to continue on a theme,...
01
Dec
Ancient Egypt Unit Study: The Plan
by Claire
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When I began introducing history, after teaching the Third Great Lesson, we began using Pandia Press’ product, History Quest Early Times (HQET). We got started...
15
Oct
Our Work – 10/9/2020
by Claire
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No sooner did I finish writing our Curriculum Choices post that we (of course) made some changes! All summer I’d felt pretty good about what...
24
Sep
Our Biome Work
by Claire
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A week or two before the start of our school year, Daisy asked to learn about the desert…so we began our year with what ended...
13
Sep
Our Work – 9/11/2020
by Claire
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Periodically I’ll be providing snapshots of our work week. Currently the girls are working on follow up work from the First Great Lesson, and biome...
