Happy new school year!

So we have started another school year and as of right now we are into week 6.  Here is a little of what we have done!

King Narmer's crown! From Story of the World V:1

We were learning about mummies and so we decided to mummify an apple! We took a regular apple we got from the store and I let him draw on it, because we were not going to eat it. We then covered it with 1/2 a cup of baking soda and 2 cups of salt mixture.

This is 2 weeks later. It had perfectly preserved it!

Inside of the apple. Just as delicious and juicy as the day it was bought.

So we put the other 1/2 in again.

Storing it in the same place for another week or 2 and seeing if it will mummify and suck out all the moisture, like the Egyptian Priests did to the Pharaohs.

Here was one of our science lessons. We are doing Geology this year. This is the layers of soil.

Here under the flaps he wrote what each layer was made up of. We then the next week dug up soil in 2 very different parts of the yard and used a magnifying glass and looked for things in the soil and he drew what he saw for each sample. We then talked about how each was different.

Getting a little more in depth with the Earth's layers. Here Smith kid #2 is building a model of the Earth's layers. (Love all my canning gear in the background? LOL It is that time of the year!)

Here he had finished the paper mache model

Side view.

He even painted the continents on the Earth's crust! The purple is the mantel or bedrock, orange is the outer core or lava and the gray is the inner core or nickle center! 

It has been a blast doing this with my oldest son. We just started with the younger kids last week for pre-k and preschool. I love doing this and could not think of a better way for my kids to learn! I wish I could post more since my posts are so sporadic but I need to hit the hay! LOL

Mrs. Smith