Trusting His Word and Learning as We Go: Chemistry has gone to the dogs! Week 25....

This week has been interesting week. Between an ice storm and 3 inches of snow for a 2nd time in 2 weeks, we were home bound for 4 days, again. This storm had more warning and since it was on the heels of the last disaster people listened to the warnings. Taz got to spend this snow time with his parents..lol...We mixed school with play time. I think I was in the minority of parent here at not pulling my hair out as the PS kids here missed another 4 days.
Here's our run down of week 25...

History/Geography-- IA, WI and continuing with our Going West Lap book... The girls wrote paragraphs about what they think their lives would have been like on the frontier. I was rolling on the floor with Ying's. She said she would have been very frustrated by having to wear dresses all the time just because she was a girl. The girls also had a paper doll to "dress" for the book, and both dressed it as a boy because "overalls are so much more fun"..lol... Yeah, I am raising tomboys for the Lord.

Math- We are still reviewing and reinforcing our addition and subtraction and associated algebra. Lots of word problems, find the missing part of the equation, and some drill. We also worked more on time and temperature.

Spelling- Lesson 26

LA- We let this slide this week. The girls had writing exercises in science and history.

Reading--- Well the Greek mythology has captivated them. Both girls are now through book three in the Tales from the Odyssey series by Mary Pope Osborne. Is it American History?..lol.. no... Are they reading avidly?.. YEP! Success ;)

Hulk got a test of real home school with his preschool being canceled due to snow and a weird break straddling the President's Day weekend. He didn't get to play video games all day much to his dismay....

Read Aloud-- Yeah um I dropped the ball this week. Not enough hours in the day to fit in snow time and everything else.....

Science- We went more in depth with the Atom this week. Had lots of fun with some hands on projects. the girls loved the Bill Nye video on Atoms and watched it several times (We had gotten it through our library on DVD but i found later most of his "Science Guy" videos are available on You Tube.) The girls were most amused by a short video we found called Dogs Teaching Chemistry- Atoms. Very cute, very elementary explanation of atoms. Great for 2nd-3rd graders.
We created our own Bohr models on paper with gummy bears, and the built water and sucrose molecules with gummy bears and marshmallows.