Science Day Rules!!!

Greetings y'all ,

Yes the title of today's blog , or as Junior Mint says our daily letter to the world, is an homage to Bill Nye the Science Guy. Ok that and Wednesday is our science day. Gotta love science day. 

Yesterday we started the day with doing experiments with flapjacks. Huh ? We experimented with density, heat, duration, etc... Best breakfast ever. We followed that with building a weather station terrarium. By we I mean he made by following directions and learning what did and did not work. Awesome work little man. He built his own hydrological cycle and can explain the various components of the weather station. He understands the greenhouse effect. Good start . Next we will study some scientists. He is partial to Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison and Leonardo DaVinci . Those are three homeschooled fellows who knew the value of learning through failure and the benefit of daydreaming.

But wait there's more! We studied physics. Velocity in equals velocity out. Angle in equals angle out. The affect on the change of mass. Oh sure it may have appeared we were playing baseball. But consider we figured out batting average and the mean ( where he hit the ball the the most ). I'm comfortable calling it a good science lesson. 

I should we walked through the woods to the library as well. Wow the woods are really changing with summer approaching. We observed flora and fauna. We explored the light variations in the woods and the effect on undergrowth. At the library he choose books on baseball and an Alice Walker book of poetry. Between that and the Aesops we got some good moral lessons into our language arts and character building for the day .

The day wasn't over. We needed groceries . Time to use economics. Work the budget. Stay under budget. Read labels figure cost per serving, price per unit,ensure maximum bang for our limited bucks. Don't get me started on the chemistry of cooking. 

The evening was spent watching science on PBS. I'd call that a good day. It's interesting that a typical day for us is and has been a form of homeschooling. I guess it's my innate project based learning teaching style ( you learn more from animals than books about animals ) and his innate learning style. It works for us. I confess I enjoy this and always have. Watching him do his Math this morning I saw how much his frustration level has stopped but how much he learned in the old brick and mortar school . Yes we also do worksheets . He struggled with certain lagging skills but he was stellar with the academics. I give credit to the staff in his old classroom for helping him grow academically . 

Thanks for reading again today folks.