the brown paper test for Fats
sour cream and butter were the two biggest culprits... why?
making butter from whipping cream
Zac's button snake
wonderful for fine motor... similar to the Montessori Dressing Frames
rough draft of an illustration for the Digestive System
picnic lunch on a beautiful warm day outside
exploring the enzyme action in saliva
experiment in Blood and Guts
adding iodine to a cornstarch-water-saliva slurry initally makes it turn purple
as the cup contents get less purple, we know that the saliva has transformed the starch into sugar
yep, you can still swallow while standing on your head
a walking meditation in Yoga class
Mancala, the oldest board game in the world
Check the Fridge, a more modern math game
with the Stamp Game material available for those who need extra help
Leah's quiet dissection spot:
the top of the clothes dryer
carving the saddle joint out of florist foam
a regular dinner table knife works fine for this
but the tip of your Sharpie will never be the same
the Small Number Cards shown in expanded notation
and slid together and stacked,
with each digit in its correct color coding for place value
and the number made with the Golden Bead Material
our new Roman Numeral Hundred Board
Leah gets a box...
the awesome Multi-Base Bead Frame allows for hands-on addition and subtraction in bases from binary (base 2) to hexadecimal (base 16)
laminated wall cards
S is for Stars
our version, using a textured foam roller and paint
baby teeth from my children
Natalie's tooth which she knocked out with root intact at the age of 3
is always fascinating for students
thumbless Yahtzee!
measuring for the Orienteering course
using 3-part cards from ETC Montessori to review terminology for the parts of the Human Body systems
my group really enjoyed making the illustrations for this main lesson book!
making a working model of the human hand
carefully organizing tiles for the Hundred Board
making paper in Easter cookie cutters
making shaving cream eggs in our Handwork Hangout time
and beautiful speckled Galaxy Eggs
a vist from the beekeeper, Mark Fletter
we hope to catch a bee swarm!
the box must be installed perfectly level in the tree
the three part cards for the Integumentary System
Miss Aliya, our special guest for the Lymphatic System, shows us the size and location of our thymus
we use the hands-on materials she brought to make our own models of different parts of the Lymphatic System
using tracing paper to make copies of diagrams in the
Zac, age 2, creates his own marble maze design
the last day of the Human Body... the Lego Lesson!
Cells make up Tissues
Tissues make up Organs
Organs make up Organ Systems
finally, we combine everyone's Organ System to make one amazing Organism
looking at a very simple organism... the Worm
Leah told me later that this was her favorite dissection from the kit because you could see everything so clearly
our final special guest reviews all of the parts of the body and draws a depiction of how all the human body systems work together
one student bravely tries to needle felt all of the human organ systems inside the body
soapmaking for the Integumentary System
onward to Norse Mythology!
an illustration for Freya's Wonderful Necklace
using the dictionary to help with a Noun box from the Grammar Cabinet
sidewalk chalk outside on a pretty day
planting native trees in our yard
Zac is not sure how he feels about this little worm
a quiet Handwork time to catch up on knitting
the final dissection... the Frog
happily surrounded by our collection of Animal X-Rays
matching them up with their companion full color illustrations
as always, getting an edit of each rough draft before we put summaries and illustrations in our main lesson books
finishing up Norse Mythology MLBs
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