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Science Experiment: Erupting Soap
We recently learned about Charles' Law with some Ivory soap and a microwave.
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60 Piece Puzzle
Nicholas has never really had the patience for puzzles but Rachel has always been a wiz at them.
She quickly put together 24 piece puzzles when she was two so for her 3rd birthday we got her a 60 piece puzzle. She pulled it out this morning and started working on it at the table while I worked with Nicholas on his school work.
There were many more pieces than she was used to so I talked to her about sorting out the corner and edge pieces first and helped her understand how to put those together to make the outer edge.
But she really put the whole thing together and was so proud of her accomplishment!
I think 60 piece puzzles are a good number for her now but I think we'll have to go bigger by the time her 4th birthday rolls around.
She quickly put together 24 piece puzzles when she was two so for her 3rd birthday we got her a 60 piece puzzle. She pulled it out this morning and started working on it at the table while I worked with Nicholas on his school work.
There were many more pieces than she was used to so I talked to her about sorting out the corner and edge pieces first and helped her understand how to put those together to make the outer edge.
But she really put the whole thing together and was so proud of her accomplishment!
I think 60 piece puzzles are a good number for her now but I think we'll have to go bigger by the time her 4th birthday rolls around.
Boy In The Box
Nicholas got an assist on the 1st goal of the game. Check out the video below (he's in the white helmet). For those of you that don't follow hockey, an assist doesn't make the goal but sets it up for another player to make the goal. It is still a big deal, even though there isn't as much fanfare as if he had actually scored the goal.
Later in the game, Nicholas tried to knock a stick out of the opposing team player's hand. That's not nice and he got a penalty for it.
In hockey, a penalty means that the player has to sit in the penalty box for a designated amount of time and his team has to play short-handed.
When a team gets their first goal, they are "on the board", meaning on the scoreboard.
Well, I can look at this board and see my boy's number 9 up there as his finishes out the remaining 1:48 on his penalty...so I'm going to say that he finally made it "on the board".
We Won!
I love this video of the boys after their win! Nicholas skates out eventually but once he is lined up, he gets all into throwing stuff and celebrating. They are all so cute out there!
Later in the game, Nicholas tried to knock a stick out of the opposing team player's hand. That's not nice and he got a penalty for it.
In hockey, a penalty means that the player has to sit in the penalty box for a designated amount of time and his team has to play short-handed.
When a team gets their first goal, they are "on the board", meaning on the scoreboard.
Well, I can look at this board and see my boy's number 9 up there as his finishes out the remaining 1:48 on his penalty...so I'm going to say that he finally made it "on the board".
We Won!
I love this video of the boys after their win! Nicholas skates out eventually but once he is lined up, he gets all into throwing stuff and celebrating. They are all so cute out there!
Melting Ice Experiments
My kids experimented with different ways to melt ice. Click over to Quirky Momma to see the fun they had.
R.E.A.L. Homeschool Spanish Review
We haven't done much Spanish in our homeschool this year. I just couldn't find something that would make it fun for Nicholas yet also help me learn Spanish along the way too.
As part of The Old Schoolhouse Homeschool review crew, I recently had the opportunity to try out REAL Homeschool Spanish. I was given a downloadable bundle which included the book, activity book, audio files, answer guide, and the daily curriculum planner. I was excited to check it out!
The first thing I was curious about is rather a silly thing but I wondered what the "R.E.A.L." stood for.
R - Relax
E - Enjoy
A - Aspire
L - Learn Spanish
What I like about the program is that it is designed to teach conversational Spanish. We don't have to spend a lot of time worrying about writing, spelling, and such. We're just focusing on how to use the language in our day to day conversations. This makes is easy and super fun to practice with each other throughout the day because the vocabulary words that we are learning just easily fit into our normal conversations.
And the audio files are a must for me and have been very helpful. My only complaint about the entire program though was that it took me a while to figure out how to access and use the audio files. I think it's just because I'm not as tech savvy as I'd like to be but I do think this could be made a bit clearer in the directions.
The Book includes 10 units, 55 vocab clusters and 15 idea sections of ways to further learning. The planner helps me plan ahead and keep track of what we have learned.
The Activity Book is my son's favorite part. It's full of fun activities like word searches, crosswords, word scrambles, and more! You can check out a sample of the Activity Book HERE.
It's a relaxed and easy to follow program that we can work on at our own pace. We are learning a foreign language and having fun doing it!
REAL Homeschool Spanish can be purchased from the REAL Homeschool Spanish website. You can download it for $49.95 or purchase a hard copy for $89.95.
I love that it is a one time price and not a monthly online subscription like another program I was considering.
Check out what others on the TOS Homeschool Crew are saying about REAL Homeschool Spanish.
Note: I was given a free download of this program in order for me to complete this review but no other compensation was given. I was not given any suggestions about what to write about and all opinions here are entirely my own.
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