From the Desk of Isaiah and Elijah

Where is the time going? We started our 3rd week of school today. My goal was to get in at least 5 weeks before the baby arrives, so I think we're doing pretty good. Today the kids learned about comets in science. They made a model of their own comet. The comet had to show the 2 parts of a comet. 1. the nucleus which includes the coma and 2. the tail. This involved sparkles and yes they made a pretty good sized mess. But well worth it.

Here they are putting a circle of glue around the nucleus to form the coma.
All done. They both choose to have two tails but we learned comets can have 1 to many many many tails.

Isaiah is doing American History this year. I have waited patiently for this time to come after 2 plus years of World History. American History is my favorite and I feel much more comfortable teaching it. So we've been learning about Native Americans and just finished a chapter on Christopher Columbus. Isaiah made this neat interactive map of his journey. The boats move along the where Columbus took his journey. I taught Isaiah the little rhyme that I remember from school...In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.