Week 12

Hulk and Ying had their Promotion Ceremonies at Choi this week. They were very proud!

 Science this week was a winner. The kids loved the Mentos coke geysers. We expanded on the experiment in the book. Each kids got 3 bottles of soda to explode. We stored them at different temperatures so everyone had a cool, room temp, and sun warmed to compare the difference reactions. The ultimate winner for our experiment was sun warmed Diet Coke. If i can every figure out how to upload the videos we made I will.  We used Slo-mo to better be able to compare each geyser.

 Ying also did her presentation this week in Co-op about her " Ancient Wonder"... She was assigned Stonehenge. She made this model and a facts pamphlet in Word. I know he teacher wondered if she made this herself, but I promise she did. The edge in looks just comes from mom's years of crafting and set building giving me a knowledge  what products exist. So this is made of  white Crayola "Model Magic" that was dry brush painted gray. Foam board is cover in $4 grass mat used for model railroads. The stone pieces are then held into the foam by toothpicks.   This model was extremely light and durable.

 I am liking the Beast Acadmey's use of puzzles and games. Here are some examples of  of multiplication puzzles. There are lots of "problems" within the problem but it doesn't look like 20 problems on a page.