Day Fifteen
More Egypt :-). We are going to mummify a cat. NO, not one of ours...not even a real one. It's a craft involving a tea stained sock stuffed with plastic bags, but it looks cool. We did the staining today-assembly will come tomorrow. I finished reading A Place in the Sun to the kids and we all enjoyed it. It's well written and gives a real sense for what life in ancient Egypt was like. While I read, they worked on some worksheets I downloaded from Enchanted Learning. I LOVE that site. Our homeschool group pays for a group subscription, and I think it's money well spent.
In the afternoon, we went to our usual Friday haunt...yes, I know it's not Friday, LOL. But Friday wasn't going to work for us, so today was a substitute.
I love it when "school" is just what you do on a walk in the woods. The kids were playing in a stream and moved a log that formed a small waterfall. That led to immediate erosion of the soft silt underneath, which led to murky water, which allowed for a discussion about erosion and the the Nile, and the silt int he water, and the richness of the delta...it just goes on and on. There was also a small Oxbow that had been cut off from the main flow, so we talked about how that (if it was MUCH bigger and this small brook was a real river) would eventually form a lake. So that was social studies.
Moving on to Science, Scott continued his quest to become the next Jeff Corwin by catching THIS:
Ummm, yea, that's a 5 1/2 foot snake. A RAT snake (just in case anyone is thinking they should be calling DCF right about now). It should be added though that Scott did NOT know it was a rat snake, although he was reasonably certain it was not a poisoneous snake...
We have a man who performs for our local libraries over the summer, and his big "schtick" is that he pulls out a HUGE snake and lets a ton of people simultaneously hold it. Here are the kids reenacting that event ;-).
Here are some more pictures from today:
Did you know we have cacti in the Sunshine state? These are flowering now. Pretty, no?
The small boys sitting on a log that crosses the stream.
You know you've had fun (or too much Italian food-sorry, but I threw that in just for Aunt Fannie) when your butt looks like this ;-).
In the afternoon, we went to our usual Friday haunt...yes, I know it's not Friday, LOL. But Friday wasn't going to work for us, so today was a substitute.
I love it when "school" is just what you do on a walk in the woods. The kids were playing in a stream and moved a log that formed a small waterfall. That led to immediate erosion of the soft silt underneath, which led to murky water, which allowed for a discussion about erosion and the the Nile, and the silt int he water, and the richness of the delta...it just goes on and on. There was also a small Oxbow that had been cut off from the main flow, so we talked about how that (if it was MUCH bigger and this small brook was a real river) would eventually form a lake. So that was social studies.
Moving on to Science, Scott continued his quest to become the next Jeff Corwin by catching THIS:
Ummm, yea, that's a 5 1/2 foot snake. A RAT snake (just in case anyone is thinking they should be calling DCF right about now). It should be added though that Scott did NOT know it was a rat snake, although he was reasonably certain it was not a poisoneous snake...
We have a man who performs for our local libraries over the summer, and his big "schtick" is that he pulls out a HUGE snake and lets a ton of people simultaneously hold it. Here are the kids reenacting that event ;-).Here are some more pictures from today:
Did you know we have cacti in the Sunshine state? These are flowering now. Pretty, no?
The small boys sitting on a log that crosses the stream.
You know you've had fun (or too much Italian food-sorry, but I threw that in just for Aunt Fannie) when your butt looks like this ;-).
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