We loveThe Usborne Big Book of Science things to make and do!
We've created plenty of messy & exciting projects from this book and it has been so much fun! Today BrookLynn wanted to make the Wizard's Brew. Last week at the library we had checked out the book Imagine you're a Wizard!, so this fit in quite nicely. For several days the girls were lost in a magical world of becoming wizards complete with wizard hats, wands, secret codes, cauldron, & brews. One of their adventures eventually led to concocting a "smell-good potion". {cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, pumpkin pie spice, & allspice mixed in a big pot}
Wizard's Brew
Supplies needed: vinegar, dish soap, glass jars, glitter, food coloring, baking soda, & baking tray
Half-fill a glass jar with clear vinegar. Add several drops of food coloring, then sprinkle a little glitter over the top of the vinegar.
Add a good squeeze of dish soap to the jar. Then gently stir the mixture with a spoon to mix everything together.
Put the jars in the middle of your baking tray. Add a heaped teaspoon of baking soda to the jar and see what happens! {we used a heaped tablespoon}
The foam that pours out of the jars is a simple chemical reaction. When the vinegar & baking soda mix, they make tons of tiny bubbles of gas. The bubbles churn up the dish soap, making lots of foam!
We {our family} have a goal to one day live on a farm. We are going to have horses, cows, pigs, chickens, and sheep. With the goats we are going to make cheese....yummy yummy! And some ice cream. One thing I really want to do is learn how to ride a horse. Anybody know how? Yesterday we looked up information on horses. Specifically Appaloosa horses. They are the ones with spots. Like this one in the picture.
We learned buttercups are toxic to horses! Appaloosa horses are easy going and good family horses. The Appaloosa's are named after the Palouse River.
We are going to have lots of fun living on a farm! We are so excited and we wish it could happen right now. But mommy says it will be a few years before we get to live on a farm. Mommy talked about planning and working together as a family to reach our goal. And that is our story. The end.
This is Shelly. She is an Ornate Box turtle. Daddy found her while he was at work.
After looking up information on our iPad's about Ornate Box Turtles, we each made an entry in our writing journals.
Ornate Box Turtles by Lexis
Ornate box turtles eat fruits and vegetables. If the turtle has red eyes it is a boy. If it has brownish eyes it is a girl. Ornate Box turtles live in prairies, woodlands, dunes, and shrublands. In Oklahoma Ornate Box turtles can be kept as pets legally. Ornate box turtles have 4 toes on there (their) hind legs.
Adult Ornate Box turtles are 4-5 inches long.
We measured Shelly and she is 5 inches long.
BrookLynn's writing journal entry
Cutting up fruits and veggies for Shelly
We put together our Road Trip USA binders. It is divided into sections. The northeast, southeast, midwest, southwest, and west. We wrote down which states are in each region.
We also put together our Literature Studies binders. Our first story is The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Mommy read the first chapter to us. We are making a lapbook for each book we read. First we took a folder and folded the edges into the middle line. Mommy printed out all the lapbook activites for us. Next we colored the cover sheet and glued it onto our lapbooks. Then we cut out a matchbook and wrote down how Alice got into Wonderland. We also made predictions based on the title and cover of the book.
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