homeschooling on 4/28/09:

horizons math: two lessons- you just gotta love having those hand's on math games made up ahead of time..here at this household, it makes math soar! dividing fractions, decimal values and decimal story problems!

we're both loving all the science this week and especially the resources we've found around the yard! i dusted off the microscope, pulled out an usborne microscope book and we worked on finding chlorophyll cells with various leaves... tulip leaves work wonderfully! we were unable to locate the nucleus, since our microscope only goes up to 400x.

looking through the microscope, is just another beautiful reminder of God's world and how detailed He is! we found a red worm on a purple hyacinth petal at 400x power! and, was amazed at the million tiny hair follicles on a fly's wing!

still learning a ton about swans, in tommie's main curriculum (living book) this week! how many eyelids does a swan have and their purpose, how they eat, do they walk and what do they really use with their preening oil and it's not just to condition that big old beak, either!

a long, long time ago, i found the book below at a garage sale for a handful of small change. it's a perfect silent reader... for springtime and living science! very boy friendly!

we still haven't dabbled in any art lessons this week... i'm hoping to, but this nature stuff is overwhelming us...in a fine way!