We've had a great week. It started off freezing cold but today it's seventy degrees! I hope we can keep the nice weather. I don't mind the snow on the ground but I'm so tired of gray, snowy skies.
In honor of spring, we signed up for The Great Sunflower Project. We'll be growing sunflowers and counting bees and they'll provide the sunflower seeds. It's a great way to have some fun while learning and contributing to bee health. Follow the link to get your own sunflower seeds so you can get counting!
Adam and Ryan finished this year's grammar book. We loved Advanced Winston Grammar, well, as much as you can love a grammar program... which is a lot of love from me and not so much from them. But despite their lack of enthusiasm, they learned a lot. I just now realized (when I found that link) that this program is way above their grade level. Now I'm even more impressed with how well they did. I even learned a few things myself. Now, it's on to composition. They're already missing their grammar books.
We finished our science chapter on the atmosphere and have moved onto a study of the weather. We just happened to get a weather station from a friend a couple weeks ago so we took it outside and attached it to the play set. It measures precipitation, temperature, wind speed and wind direction. That's four of the seven descriptors of weather. It's even windy enough today that we could measure wind speed and direction.
Adam had his first basketball game of the season last night. He had a blast and made a great three point shot. Unfortunately, he would have had to make seventeen more three pointers to win the game. They lost by fifty points! We're going to call this a building year because his team has only one returning player from last year. The other seven kids have either never played before or haven't played in a while. Adam is one of those who hasn't played in a couple years. But it was fun and we feel fortunate that he gets to play at all. There aren't very many city leagues for middle school age kids.
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We ordered the sunflower seeds last year as well. I didn't count the bees though.. but the sunflowers were pretty. Sounds like a good week!
The great sunflower project sounds like so much fun. If it's not too late we'll sign up, we always grow sunflowers anyway.
Love the sunflower project idea. I think we may sign up, although we still have too much snow and ice to put any seeds in the ground. So sorry about the basketball game, but I hope your son had a good time anyway!
I have been thinking of growing some sunflowers, so I'll have to check out that link!
Best of luck on the basketball season! Hopefully everyone just has fun.
OOOO, a weather station sounds SO great! I tried ordering the sunflower seeds but they were out. I do have my own from ordering seeds this year. I suppose they'll work too (duh). It'll be a fun experiment.
I'll be interested in hearing what you're using for composition. We've yet to find anything for writing that Brianna likes. I've got something in mind to order, but I haven't gotten my hands on it yet.
Thanks for sharing (last week) the science experiment you did with evaporation. We'll be doing it this week.
Oh, and I hear that Vikings were terribly fond of counting bears. ;-)
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