Projects of Personal Interest time!
besides the Rubik's cube, students are studying Creative Writing and Alchemy
I set the Nature table up for Autumn
my mom told me she climbed down into a ditch at an interstate bathroom reststop to get these teasels for us!
we also do a few more Colonial America activities
a handmade wooden top
checkers
marbles
a slate and slate pencil
a quill pen (turkey feather) and homemade black walnut ink
a sealing wax set
it's beautiful... and they love that you can mix two colors of wax together
silver polishing
and, finally, spinning handmade yarn
exploring the Periodic Table of Alchemy
adding Benjamin Franklin to the Inventors MLB
poor Dr. Mesmer
trying out new educational board games
this one is by Herve Tullet and is going on our list of games in ALL CAPS
everyone loves it!
when we get to the story of Louis Braille, I get out my collection of Braille books
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adding Morse Code to the MLBs
adding details to the Haunted Houses of Speech
a refresher on the story of the Math Gnomes
Times makes more and more by teaching the farmers to plant their crops in rows
but Divide has to step in when the King's storehouses begin to overflow once more...
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our Foods of the World special guest
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Foods of the World
Foods of the World
thank you to Derek Ervin from Glacier's End for teaching us how to make Shagbark Hickory Syrup!
in Science Club, we try our greenhouse gas effect experiment one more time
we review the Carbon Cycle and make a booklet of it
the three part cards and the booklet master are from Waseca Biomes
and, because Derek mentioned nitrogen fixing and legumes, we also do the Nitrogen Cycle
here's lighting doing the job of fixing nitrogen in the atmosphere
nitrogen oxide, NO
nitrogen dioxide, NO2
nitric acid, HNO3
the rain washes the fixed nitrogen down to the earth
and the little seed beads on the bottom of the soybean plant are nitrogen fixing bacteria
the nitrogen passes into the deer, and is then released through decomposition when the deer dies
our beautiful Backyard Biome aka Nitrogen Cycle tapestry!
adding Ada Lovelace to the Inventors MLB
the illustrations in Fiona Robinson's version emphasize the punch cards of the Jacquard loom
I have my own cool little vintage punch card... it's a yarn color re-order card from a box of yarn that was my great grandmother's
people would have fed it into a machine and it would have automatically selected yarn of the correct color
we also look at the illustrations in another Ada Lovelace book, to try to understand better how the Difference Engine worked
sketches of the Analytical Engine, invented by Charles Babbage (never built)
and Ada's detailed instructions on how to work it, with punched cards serving as the first-ever Computer Program!
it is amazing to us that the world's first Computer Program could exist before the first Computer was ever built
looking at the patina on copper to help us understand the colors and textures of Barbara Hepworth's bronze sculptures better
more new games for the classroom!
Ghostie Number problems
this is what it looks like when someone doesn't yet understand that the equals sign means "is the same as"
that's okay! that's why we practice!
the youngest children have a physical Ghostie (needle felted)
he is hiding a certain number of gems under his mat
like the Haunted House of Speech, Ghostie Numbers (aka Algebra) is a favorite October activity
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