Clouds

We have been learning about Weather and Types of Clouds.

When you are a Homeschool Mom, you can't help but try to tie everything in to your lessons.

So, when it started getting dark outside, I couldn't help but get the you out and do a little Real Life Science Review.

Me: So, what clouds do you see?

Jaxon: Ooo, it's stratus...

Me: And it has rain in it, so...

Jaxon: Nimbus! Nimbus! It is StratoNimbulus!

Me:🤨

Jaxon: I mean, Nimbostratulus! I mean, NIMBOSTRATUS!!

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A Boy and His Cat

G3 W36 Native American Week

We started learning about how the US came to be, and you can't start at the beginning without talking
about the Original Americans / Native Americans.

More Purple Sticky Notes from Around the States.

We love Skippyjon Jones. Who wouldn't?

We did a few Native American crafts this week.  The first was a Wampum, a belt made of shells/beads.  We didn't have any shells or beads, so we used a template I found online, and we colored them in like beads/shells.

Then, we "laminated" them and added some string so that we could tie them around our waists.

Next, we followed a tutorial on Youtube and drew a Native Headdress. 

Lastly, we made Vests out of Brown Paper Bags and decorated them with Indian Motifs.

For Science, we talked about our environment and acid rain, as well as chemical weathering, and we did the old "Vinegar and Boiled Egg" experiment.

You loved seeing how the egg shell started bubbling and over the course of the day, slowly disintegrate until there wasn't much brown left.

We took it out of the vinegar at the end of the day, and the shell was all gone, leaving just a thin covering over the egg.

And then there was rain and WORM CASTS!!!!

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See all those purple stickers? That means we have had to borrow them from other libraries that are out of town, or even out of state. Pretty wild.


I have been relying on the net and its "infinite" sources for our school, but I thought I would go back to good ol' fashioned reference books for a bit - only because having something tangible is always just a little bit of a sweeter experience at times.

You had one of your "I need to make a Stik Bot animation" creative bursts the other day, but not only that, you wanted to create a comic strip.  You took the pictures, I put in the captions and speech bubbles, and ( although I don't have the final product on here ) voila, instant Comix by Jaxon.

7/23/2018 Update!!! I found the final product!

School - lots of digitalismz.

Ah, and you borrowed my phone the other day to make An Angry Bird Short Movie, which you hadn't in a while, and which I was glad you did.

Here is your latest Minecraft Plushie acquisition - The Pig.  It didn't have a tag on it at Walmart, and so the cashier just quoted a price, and I said, "sure"... only because I was thinking we were getting a pretty good deal.

MWAHAHAHAH.

One of your Assignments during school was to make a brochure about a National Park you had to research and report on.

We continued our work in Science where this time, we were looking at the effects of having a Waxy Coat, like Cactus Plants do, in helping to prevent water loss.

We went outside to put our Test Subject and the Control out in the sun, and thought that the flowers were to beautiful not to get a photo op in.

Whenever we bring you to the playground at Church, you oftentimes play with different kids each time, but it makes no difference to you. You can play with ANYONE.  :)

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I am way behind on these posts, and this one was back from early April. I hope I can catch up again.

Anyhoo,

Chapter Books! I have been trying to introduce new ones to you, especially ones with more words and less pictures.  Not that pictures aren't good, but I just want to gradually get you more and more used to books that are no less exciting and wonderful, but just that have a lot less illustrations.

I still go up and down the aisles at the library sometimes, trying to pick things out that we haven't read, which would seem interesting or educational.

Sometimes you hand me one that we have read, but that you want to revisit. :)

Ah, why the random full on face photo?  Well, you  see, I have delegated the job of taking photos of the books we read every week, to you.  And of course, who can resist silly selfies with a camera at their disposal ? :)

School is still going on full force, even though it's at our pace, and not really following the regular school's designated semester time frames.

You love experiments and hands on work, so you were totally delighted when we did something to illustrate how blubber keeps animals warm in the cold regions of the Earth.

"Delighted" is really putting it lightly.  Needless to say, you wanted to "feel the texture of the actual butter", and how could I say no.  I did give some conditions that were along the lines of PLEASE DON'T GET BUTTER EVERYWHERE!

Then, there was the day when you decided you needed to come up with an edition of your own newspaper, complete with crossword puzzles, jokes and different sections.

My tired brain is a little battle weary for those kinds of things, but it fascinates me that you are so full of imagination and creativity.

Ah, then there was the time when you REALLY REALLY needed to make some fruit kebabs.
Under supervision, of course.

One little tradition that you have started is, when we are at The Grocery Store, you would get a few pieces of the wire ties, and ask me what shape I would like you to come up with.

I think this one was supposed to be a baby with a diaper on.

I mean, you see it, don't you? :)

I love you, my little voracious reader.