This is our homeschool room. I dedicated one part of our house (well to be honest, we homeschool in every part of the house 😆) but this is the main area where you will find everything homeschool related since we decided we will be homeschooling until our kids are ready for college. I really love […]
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Have fun making fireworks in a jar using a few simple ingredients! Materials: 3/4 cup water 3 tbsp oil Food coloring Fork A Glass A small bowl Directions: 1-Add 3/4 cup of water to a glass. 2-In a small bowl, add 3 tbsp of oil, and a few drops of food coloring. Mix the food
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Here’s a really cool experiment to celebrate the fourth of July/ Independence Day involving baking soda, vinegar, and balloons! Also, learn a little bit of chemistry of how the fireworks get their colors! Materials Needed: Balloons- Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple (white and silver if you are able to get those as well) Balloon
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Here’s a cool chemistry experiment we did- reigniting a flame using hydrogen peroxide! So how does this work? Hydrogen Peroxide is H2O2- there are two hydrogens and two oxygens. When yeast is added to hydrogen peroxide, it speeds up the process of decomposing H2O2 into H20 (or water). You are able to see the oxygen
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For our art lesson today, we made snakes 🐍 out of tissue paper squares. The lesson was inspired by our Get Into Art: Animals library book. I also gathered our books about reptiles- snakes specifically- so we can learn more about them and recreate a snake that’s their favorite with of course some modifications due
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My oldest son loves chemistry. I started to introduce it into our homeschooling curriculum last year since he wanted to learn more. That’s one of the greatest things about homeschooling- we get to choose what we want to learn about based on interests, and then delve into that topic as much or as less as
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What do you use to clean coins? For this experiment, we used several solutions that could clean our coins. We used baking soda and water, vinegar, soap and water, ketchup, and orange juice. We let our coins sit for about 2 hours as we ran errands. I also setup a mini baking soda vinegar surprise
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To go along with our books about the ocean, I set up an oobleck activity that represented the 5 layers of the ocean (I made five colors of oobleck 😅) and added in our mini figurines from @safariltd to go along with each layer 🐋 🐠 🐙 🦈 🦀. My youngest really enjoyed this theme! As he
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There are days when the kids just don’t feel like doing school. And that’s totally okay! We play games instead and they truly don’t believe it’s school work, but it totally is!•Here’s a brief overview of the games for today’s post:•Sequence Numbers– this is an awesome game for addition and subtraction facts. Each player is
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What are minibeasts? Butterflies, dragonflies, scorpions, spiders, ladybugs, and praying mantises are all considered minibeasts and today we are going to start learning about them! My boys are definitely interested in bugs 🕷 and this was a perfect opportunity for us to learn about new topics that I haven’t introduced formally. We started first with
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