homeschool

Back to school

| Stacy

Christmas break is over and it is back to the books…  Katriel isn’t so keen on sharing her siblings with higher learning.  She comes around for snuggles as often as possible.

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Sogo Hibachi and Color Me Mine

| Stacy

 

My friend, Darci, coordinated a number of December activities.  Some of us went to her house on Monday to do Christmas crafts, and today I took the three older girls, and our friend, to another day of fun.

We had lunch at Sogo Hibachi.  It was a ton of fun.

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Then we headed over to Color Me Mine for some art work.
It was such a fun day!

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Homeschool experiment– being bats

| Stacy

How do bats help pollinate the saguaro cactuses of the deserts?

Like this!

We traced the edge of the cup onto a coffee filter

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And cut it out [to be petals]IMG_9085

We made a circle of corn syrup and cut straws shorter than
the cups [to make the pollen stick and to mimic the proboscises of the bats]

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And then dipped them in colored sugar [the pollen]

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And poured a small amount of Coca-cola in the bottom of the cups [to mimic nectar]

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And used our straws [proboscises] to drink out the pop [nectar]

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The kids [bats] really had to smush their faces into the
rims of the cups [cactuses] to enjoy the pop [nectar]

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This resulted in sugary [polleny] faces

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and if they moved on to their neighbor’s cup [cactus] they would
have left behind remnants of sugar [pollen]
and helped to make new flowers!

did not think of this myself – all the credit goes
to Carrie Austin at Heart of Dakota Publishing.

DO TRY THIS AT HOME!

AND- if you think this sounds familiar…

homeschool experiment 2011…

CBS 2016

| Stacy

I don’t often think to take “first day” photos of things, but I did decide to grab a shot of the first day of CBS.  These kids have grown up attending. 

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