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Sunday, June 1, 2014

Energy Unit study!

Visit this site: AE kids it will help you see how many ways we use electricity in our home.

After you visit the site, walk around our house and see how many other ways we use electricity! Write down 3 more ways on a piece of paper.

Next, visit this site: Save energy it will give you ideas about ways YOU can help save energy.

Then, write down 5 ways YOU are going to start saving energy on the same piece of paper then show it to mom!

THEN, visit this link to see if you can crack a secret code! Be a sleuth!

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

So, today is Earth day and I must admit with Easter just being 2 days ago I had not put together a plan for today. Luckily, I have the internet to help me out!

So, we started out with this link to explain Earth Day- What is Earth Day

Next we did a little scavenger hunt that I found here- Scavenger Hunt

After that, we cleaned up the yard, talking about how happy it would make the earth to be nice and clean.

During lunch we watched a great video from Schoolhouse Rock on Earth Day, I found it on Netflix!

In the afternoon, we created a collage from magazines based on what we could do to help the earth.

So, that is it! My quickly thrown together Earth Day homeschool plan.......=)

Friday, April 18, 2014

Easter activities!

http://beautyandbedlam.com/resurrection-rolls-easter-recipe/

http://www.freehomeschooldeals.com/free-easter-lapbook-from-currclick/

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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Lessons on lunar eclipse

This is a little study I put together for my son on the recent "blood moon" or lunar eclipse.

From: http://kids.discovery.com/tell-me/space/what-is-a-lunar-eclipse

As you know, the Earth goes around the sun and the moon goes around the Earth. Now imagine what happens when you have the sun, the Earth, and the moon all lined up in a row. The Earth will end up blocking the rays of the sun from reaching the moon. The Earth has two shadows, one inside the other. The inner shadow is called the umbra, and it's the darker shadow. The penumbra is a wider shadow, stretching out more to the sides, but it's not as dark as the umbra. 

When the moon is in the penumbra shadow of the Earth, we barely notice that the moon is darkened. When the moon is partly in the umbra shadow of the Earth, it's called a partial lunar eclipse. When the moon is all the way in the umbra shadow, it is a total lunar eclipse. Total lunar eclipses last around 20 minutes to an hour and 40 minutes.

Wath this video- lunar eclipse video

Watch the Blood moon eclipse! watch the eclipse

http://www.neok12.com/Eclipse.htm

http://www.neok12.com/video/Eclipse/zX45704e56606151726a0377.htm

Draw a picture of what a lunar eclipse is....the sun, moon and earth aligned and the shadows.

Here is an example

Here is my sons diagram of the eclipse.....