Science Day

CJ LOVES science! He would gladly do school work all day long every day ... if it could be science! So, every once in a while we spend the whole day do crazy science experiments. One of our favorite websites to use Science Bob.

Today we did Build a Fizz Inflator, Fantastic Foamy Fountain, The Exploding Sandwich Bag, Make a Paperclip Float, Try Some Lava in a Cup, and Make a Balloon Rocket.

It was so fun! And a great way to take a break from some 'book' work and still learn a ton! Today we just did the observation part. Next week we are going to pick one and turn it in to a real experiment by changing some of the variables to see what happens. It should be fun!

First Day of 5th Grade!

Today was CJ's first official day of 5th grade!

 

We started the day off with a Morning Meeting. This is something new for us, but something I really think we need. We just took a few minutes to go over the schedule for the week and talk about the things we would be doing this year. CJ told me he wanted to be a little more involved with his schedule, he wanted to have a say in what he was going to do. So, I had him sit down and put the loop lessons in the order he wanted to do them in. I've added a couple of things to the loop since my last post. This is what our loop list looks like now and the order he put them in:

Geography
Art
Game Time
Life of Fred
Sign Language
Presidents
Spelling
Vocabulary
Reading
Critical Thinking
Typing
Poetry

After our Morning Meeting we headed outside for some first day of school pictures!  We are using a lighter schedule for now, until our co-op starts in September. That will be our Science, Writing, and History. For now, it's just Literature, Grammar, Multiplication Review, and the loop lessons.

Our first day looked like this:

9am Morning Meeting and First Day of School Pictures
9:15 - 9:45 Literature Reading - CJ has picked Treasure Planet for our first book
9:45 - 11:00 Loop

OK- so I admit we didn't stay on schedule too well. But we never do. My schedules are more like guidelines, so there was no surprise in that. But we made it through 2 loop items before lunch and did two after lunch (called it a day at 1:30), so the day was a success in my book! One day down-- 179 more to go!