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Sandusky, Ohio here!!! (Not sure if anyone still uses these boards). Just discovered Other Goose for my 2.5 year old.
Hi! I’m new here! I live in the Houston, TX area (Spring/Woodlands area), and would love to connect with other homeschooling families. My oldest is thriving in public school kindergarten, but my 4 year old has struggled with preschool, so we’re going to try home preschool instead.
Northern Cali- Lodi (30 min South of Sacramento). Recently had my 40th birthday! Mom of 6- from 20 years old to 4! Homeschooling my 4 y.o. and 11 y.o. presently. Loving it so much!
Glad you were able to find the lesson but sorry it didn’t go so smoothly. I haven’t tried that one yet so I don’t have any tips from experience.
I think Erin meant that if you put vinegar on the chalk you would get a lot of fizziness! Perhaps the rocks you found didn’t have calcium carbonate? If you try it again – sneak in a sure bet with the chalk….you could break up a piece so the kiddos don’t recognize it as easily. :)
I was able to find it! However, the experiment didn’t work–i didn’t know what to do with the chalk (no instruction on what to do with it in the lesson plan) so didn’t use it but also we scratched the rocks and all that happened was the material from the penny came off onto the rock-no fresh rock material exposed and no reaction. rocks were wet-perhaps that was the reason?
I purposely skip lessons if we’re busy or inspired by other things. And then it’s great to have a bunch to peruse and store away for later. Then when my kiddos are interested in a relevant topic, I can more easily offer activity ideas without forcing them.
Good luck with the calcium carbonate test! :)
Hi Bianca,
No worries – we skip/miss lessons each week too.
The Homeroom just shows the newest lessons from the current week. But if you go over two tabs to the right from Homeroom, you’ll find Progress Report. Here you have the full list of all the lessons.The one you’re looking for is “Try the acid test” and you can search by the name if you like.
Emelia :)
Hi,
I thought I’d share that we combined two prompts this week…the Nest and Pig Pen Challenges.I had prepped for the Pig Pen idea by telling the story when we were hanging out in our playground house last week but we didn’t get to building. They had me add on to the Muppet version where the wolf pretends to be Santa, and my daughter wanted there to be 5 pigs. I also read a version of it…they were pleasantly shocked and delighted with the fairy tale wolf eating two pigs and the third pig eating the wolf!
Then this week we were cleaning out the garden and my son dumped all the leaves from the yard waste bag in a pile on the ground right before we were going inside. We decided to leave it for another day. The next day he said he wanted to build a house with the leaves. Then we used the tee pee stick structure we’ve had up for a couple years as supports for a bird nest. He tried just tossing leaves on it before deciding we needed more supports. We added sticks and twine before adding the leaves. This led to discussions about birds’ nests..and climbing on the tee pee. Then I recited the wolf’s lines about blowing the house down. The kiddos realized that with the supports it couldn’t blow down but the wolf could push it. And when we were done the tee pee was on the ground…to much delight! And we haven’t cleaned up the leaves. :) So happy to have had some prep and ideas to help me go with the flow that afternoon!
