Admittedly I have a few posts to get caught up on yet (namely our STEM Friday Projects) but I thought I'd let you know that we are being intentional this year. Taking time on Fridays to work through our books and boxes that we have lining these two shelves.
Kits to make soap, weather stations, wood burning, smithsonian projects and so much more. Books to make electric items using paper, using squares of paper and wood to build creations and more. It's fun learning! We have games to play and things to do.
But you know what happens? Sometimes this stuff gets forgotten, and this year, we don't want to forget to do them, or my .. oh my goodness... now 11 year old will outgrow them and who wants that? Not me, and definitely not him.
Last week we made this fellow:
But you know what happens? Sometimes this stuff gets forgotten, and this year, we don't want to forget to do them, or my .. oh my goodness... now 11 year old will outgrow them and who wants that? Not me, and definitely not him.
Last week we made this fellow:
She's a salt water spider (so you if put salt water in her, she'll move around). My lad has yet to put the salt water in as the plates only last four hours and he doesn't want to waste them. We learned though about how salt water is a conductor, and magnesium plates will degrade if in contact with salt. We had a chance to see what happens if you don't fit gears together properly, and the importance of not only READING the instructions, but looking at the accompanying pictures. She wasn't the easy build, but boy... is my lad happy with her. He did it on his own with the odd... mom... can you trim this down for me, it's not working for me.
Oh.. this sand art was more of a challenge than we anticipated. The funnel it came with was a bit on the small side, so I made a funnel of paper and my lad learned the fine use of a skewer to help the sand go through the funnel. My son laughed at my sand man, and I thought his design with layering quite interesting. We have two more to and now that we've worked out the kinks making these two my lad thinking he might try a slightly harder one next time.
Since we had it written in the planner to make a solar oven today my son and I tossed the math and English practice for the day and read instructions FOUND HERE for making the ovens. We used styrofoam as our insulator instead of paper. Last check the lad said they were cooking. :)
Fridays we do our learning a bit differently, as much as we can.
Do you have days of the week that you do things differently as well? If so what?
Fridays we do our learning a bit differently, as much as we can.
Do you have days of the week that you do things differently as well? If so what?
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