We dissected THREE animals this week. We started our study of invertebrates, and we looked at a real sponge, and dissected a worm, a clam, and a starfish! Who says you have to forgo anything as a homeschool group :) My niece whose a born animal whisperer, joined our biology group and was told by all the girls back home that she was sure to throw up, but guess what; dissection isn't actually gross, and she was just as fascinated as the boys.
I had to include Tesla. Because of my husband I know how ingenious he was. BAD business man. No PR skills. Result: No one knows about him, no kids are taught about him, and a little home school mom pities him.
I gave my boys a plasma ball to celebrate these men, but it broke the next day. I'm hoping Dustin can fix it.
We aslo studied the Wright brothers. We got out a book I found at the thrift store:
Best. Plane. Book. EVER!!! I can't rave about this book enough. IT IS SO COOL! All the airplanes (112 of them) are awesome and can be made without even looking at instructions because they are so easy and my boys can do them by themselves and they all WORK (really well.)
Then we Learned about Lindbergh (lucky LINDY) and Amelia Earhart and Maxwell got the idea of making an ocean for us to cross out of a blue blanket.
AND we learned about Henry Ford this week---because we hadn't crammed in enough as is!---a great book about him was "Eat My Dust."
We had the best activity EVER. A cookie car assembly line---oh yah---where each boy was given a specific thing to decorate on the car-cookie.
And I thought I would add this photo of our homeschool supervisor, because he's just so cute.
PS-found some cool books about immigrants-"An Ellis Island Christmas" and "A Place to Grow."
Thanks for this blog. We'll be following you for inspiration as we just took the homeschooling path for our 2 girls.
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