It's been a while since this blog was updated! That seems to be how I begin every entry. I became convicted a few years ago that I was devoting more time to making the blog look good than actually being intentional with my children. So rest assured, we are regularly having school lessons and everyone's getting educated around here even if I am not updating the blog.
Since my last post, we have studied boats, airplanes, flight and floating, and we are currently in a mini-unit on the attributes of God (omniscient, holy, loving, omnipresent, eternal, immutable, omnipotent, etc). For our boats and floating unit we learned about Archimedes' principle of displacement and did an experiment in which we observed water being displaced with marbles, then made an aluminum foil boat. The kids had a lot of fun playing in the bathtub with their boats, it was actually quite a mess. During the airplanes and flight study we did the hairdryer and ping-pong ball experiment in which we floated the ball in the stream of hair dryer air and then made it shoot farther using a toilet paper tube to illustrate Bernoulli's principle (air increases in speed in small spaces). It was so fun! We also made paper helicopters and airplanes and threw them off the second floor landing.
Our Attributes of God unit was something I threw in between the "Trust" and "Stewardship" units. It's part of the "Honor" unit in KONOS and had so many fun activities and biblical tie-ins that I couldn't skip it. Another thing I love about homeschooling, especially not working with a district--I don't have to feel bad about teaching my kids about Jesus during "school time"! I actually made this mini-unit two weeks longer than originally planned so we are devoting a whole month to it. We have played with playdough to illustrate omnipotence, identified circles around the house to show eternalness, and Caley has also been learning how to use a dictionary to look up meanings of words. This week we studied God being eternal and read Revelation 1:8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end." This nicely lead us to learn a bit of Greek! We learned the Greek alphabet in a song and copied some Greek text. The girls loved it!
I have been trying a new thing regarding school--doing it in the afternoon! This way Wesley has more time to play with Caley and Amelia during the day instead of trying to keep him occupied while I do lessons with the girls. It has worked well, because he usually takes a good afternoon nap. School time usually takes 2-2.5 hours so we still have time for quiet time ourselves which is very helpful for mama's sanity.
I promise to post pictures soon, but there's a quick update for ya!
