We have decided to add Lynn Seddon’s Exploring Nature with Children to our homeschooling curriculum this year. Living in Canada, we will probably have to add 4 more weeks of winter ideas to make it work for us.
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I finished up my final piece for the art swap. To read more about the other pieces I created you can read this post. After drawing the picture with ink, I thought it just didn't have enough punch, so I took out my pencil crayons and started adding colour.
Testing for Acids & BasesDear Daughter is learning about acids and bases in science. Her textbook suggests various experiments using litmus paper (which if you can remember back to grade 6 will show whether a substance is an acid or base by turning either blue or red depending on the paper used).
We LOVE experiments in our house so I duly set off in search of litmus paper (also called pH paper). None of the drug stores that I visited had it (actually some didn't even know what I was talking about). So we dug deeper... Did you know that Litmus paper is made using chemicals found in purple cabbage?! So we stopped at our local organic vegetable stand at the Farmer's Market and bought a purple cabbage for $3.00 Daughter chopped up two cabbage leaves. |
AuthorJulie is a Mom working from home. She runs her own yarn business, homeschools her two kids, and gardens in her spare time. Archives
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