Big D's Science Project

Make a Smilebox postcard

Big D did a great job with this project. I was there to lend support, but he basically did the whole thing himself. We had to change a few things (we didn't have pea gravel and coarse gravel, but figured chunked up concrete could work for both....same thing with coarse and fine sand). But it worked! We were all very impressed!!

Self Portrait

Artist at work 2
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Today Little D learned about portraits and self-portraits. Then he got to make a self portrait. He was VERY eager to try out his new paints (that came free in our K12 stuff!). Note that he did the curly hair first.....priorities man! :) Click on the link to see more pictures of the artist at work, as well as his finished painting.

Science Project

Science Project
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This lovely "contraption" is supposed to measure the humidity. The "scientist" is quite proud of her work, but we can't seem to get it to actually work. The paper squares on the right side are supposed to absorb moisture and weigh the end of the straw down so that the pointer on the other end will rise up our scale (the green triangle on the left) So far, no luck, but this is VERY old paper and it's rather brittle, so we'll try it again and Mom won't try to be so thrifty with the paper. Pink Princess was still rather proud of it though!

K12 is here!

K12 is here!
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And this is less than half of the stuff! You'd think it was Christmas though!! Hee hee hee!!

Big D & his K12 stuff

Big D & his K12 stuff
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He's excited now, and let's just hope that continues. He got two boxes and should also be getting a bit more.

Little D & 1 box of K12 goodies

Little D & 1 box of K12 goodies
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Poor Little D only got one box today. But there's PLENTY more coming!! This box had his workbooks in it, with some pages he had already done online!

Pink Princess & some of her K12

Pink Princess & some of her K12
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She got two of her boxes of stuff. One box had reading books in it, and she's already read about 7 of them!!!!!

Here we go!!

We're currently doing about 1/2 days of school (started last week) just to get us back into the habit (hopefully by the time the books get here, the grumbling will have tamed a little bit!) Anyway, I just had to share today's "fun". Big D is reading A Wrinkle in Time for literature (and I can do it now without the k12 books). Well, if you've read it, you know it talks about tesseracts. Big D had a printed off glossary of words for this book, so he, at least, had a better idea than I did when I first read it. He asked me if a tesseract was a real thing, so we were excited when we found a link in our online stuff for it. Well, I just have to say it was VERY cool!! We started just trying to figure out a 2D drawing of one, then Big D found a tesseract pendant, which, when we looked at it, reminded us an awful lot of some of M.C. Escher's stuff (you know, where some people are walking down stairs and then suddenly those stairs are going the other way,....look here. We had fun trying to figure it out (I don't know if you actually, truly can). But it was nice to see the eagerness in learning!! (okay, I was getting into it too!)