Our Attempt At A STONEHENGE CAKE!

Well, I had this great idea to make a Stonehenge Cake, I mean how hard could it be??? Well, alot harder than making the real stonehenge,! LOL...what a disaster, but very tasty!

STONEHENGE

We studied Stonehenge a few days ago....ours doesnt exactly look like the real thing ( below) but the boys sure had fun building it...

O's ALPHABET WALL

This is O's Wall...well, it will be a whole room actually going around the top of the ceiling...each letter is made with some type of material ( beads, stickers, yarn, googly eyes). He LOVES this so much and is very proud to hang these up.

"G" for GOOGLY EYES

Can you say "g" for googly eyes? This is Mr. Funny....he is making all his letters with "stuff". He wouldn't dream of using a crayon or pencil, LOL...the messier the better. We are hanging the letters with clothespins around the top of the room.

DISSECTION: OWL PELLETS

Today was a very fun science lab day! We have been studying zoology and today we started the study of birds, specifically the "birds of prey". The kids dissected owl pellets today to figure out what exactly the owl ate before regurgitating a huge pellet. The pellets were sterilized and safe to dissect. Heres the verdict: JD-his owl ate 2 rats and one bird, FP-3 rats, Ju-2 rats. The boys were able to resconstruct most of their dead rodents. I have to say, they were really into this....two straight hours, piece by piece.....it was awesome!!!

Clones?

So, we have been studying cloning,LOL...looks like our experiment worked, LOL..identical in looks and personality.....

Funny boy...takes after his brother, Mr. Comedian

Its that time again.....

Well, its time to think about our costumes for this year......I just had to post this one. Total: 15.00 for all four! I will post previous years if I can find them....

Third Grade BROWN BAG BOOK REPORT & O's NATURE COLLAGE

Ju had fun creating her "brown bag" report on Keeper of The Night while O took some time out of his "busy" day to go on yet another nature hunt...this time he wanted to add his handprints and convinced the big kids to do it also....can you say "paint everywhere", LOL! If you look closely, you can see where he glued tomatoes to the poster board...I really should be watching my children better, LOL.

Book Report Day & Craft

Younger Group Craft and Book Reports

HOMESCHOOL GROUP CRAFT grade 4-7

Our first older craft ( grade 4-7) was this past week. What a super nice bunch of kids. Here is a picture with their "pet rocks". They also each did a book report. It was great!

Even Our Cat Has Good Table Manners.....now if only it would rub off on the kids!

THE BUTTERFLIES HATCHED....We had five altogether....and off they went into a beautiful blue sky....J and O made "wishes"...it was so very sweet!

O's Greenhouse and Nature Collage

O was sort of mad that none of his things were on this blog...so here we go. This is a greenhouse and a nature collage that we did last week.

BUTTERFLIES IN MOTION

Well, being that we dont have enough pets...we decided to go ahead and get some caterpillars and watch them turn into beautiful butterflies. These are monarchs and they just entered their chrysalis (cacoons).....they should join our pet collection as beautiful butterflies in about two weeks. There are five altogether. This is mainly Ju and O's project. Ju is taking notes and graphing the butterlies' progress. Owen is visiting them often so they dont get lonely.

CELLS

Today, the boys had a lesson on cells. Ju followed along but had a different assignment at her grade level. Monday we will be observing real cells under a microscope so we did a VERY HANDS ON lesson and made our own animal cell with jello and other food items, correctly representing 16 parts. Talk about messy!!!

CELL-O DAY

For the Blog Challenged

For those of you that have never used a blog, specifically, Gramdma and Grandpa and also Gramdma L, just read down as you go and then click on older posts ( at the bottom) and you can see everything from day one!