Pre- School

Over on Angel Eyes blog Zoya's mom gives a great review on the Pre School Prep program . I'm going to be ordering some of this program for my youngest daughter Ruby. It looks excellent! I love that you can get flashcards and workbooks!

Search Amazon.com for preschool prep

Model Volcano-6th grade science project

My sixth grade daughter is using BJU Science  . She read about earthquakes and volcanos this week.Here is her Volcano project :

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-make-a-model-volcano

Here's a link on how to make a model volcano:

Art Fun

Our Science Curriculum

The Science book that I use for my younger girls is called,"How Does God do That? Complete Earth Science." It is written by Paul and Danielle Harris and the cover says it is for ages 8-12. I bought my copy used ,but I found it for sale at Shekinah Curriculum Cellar if your interested. I like this book because it is from a christian perspective,has some nice hands on activities, and I can use it with more than one child at a time.This is the book that I got the instructions from for my girls to make their ,Model of the Sun, that I showed pictures of in my previous post.

My 12 year old boy is using a science text for 7th graders from Abeka called,"Order and Reality." We like all the Abeka science texts.They are very colorful and informative and have lots of good experiments.I also bought him a science kit called Chem C1000 just for fun.This kit should be used with supervision and kept away from small children because of some very dangerous chemicals.

My high school age children are using Apologia ,which I like very much because the text is written like the author is talking right to the reader and the experiments are done mostly with household items.

I'm hoping to have a post soon showing some of our science experiments.

Wordless Wednessday

Wordless Wednesday-Baking

Sugar cookies

We made "No-Roll Sugar Cookies" today.

1 cup sugar

1 cup butter or margarine,softened

1 tsp vanilla

1 egg

2 1/3 cups all purpose flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

Heat oven to 375 F.

In large bowl,beat sugar and butter on low speed or with spoon until light and fluffy.Stir in vanilla and egg.Stir in flour and baking soda.Shape dough by teaspoonfuls into balls.On ungreased cookie sheet,place 2 inches apart.Flatten with bottom of spoon and sprinkle lightly with granulated sugar.Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until set.

Icing

2 cups powdered sugar

1/2 cup butter or margarine,softened

1/2 tsp vanilla

1 to 2 tblsp milk

In small bowl,combine icing ingredients;blend until smooth

Menu-planning

The Old Schoolhouse - free

Look Inside >>  Fall 2008 - Free Gift Issue

Wordless Wednesday- This is Archie