Roller Skating

Edward went Roller Skating on the 18th of Jan for the first time at a Roller Skating Rink. Our Co-op has a 6 week (or longer if need be) Roller Skating P.E. Class. Edward is learning the proper way to break, to fall (so as not to hurt himself) and just how to get around on the skates. I bought him a new pair of skates as he has pretty much out grown the ones that slide over his shoes. I bought him the In-line Trainer Skates by Little Tikes. I even bought myself a pair of out door Quad (you know the old fashion 4 wheel type) so that we can go skating at the park in spring. He is so much in love with skating. I hope it continues. I loved skating so much as a teenager.

It's A Cell

Today in Co-op Class the children learned about the last days of Creation. The listened to stories about this subject and had a snack of different types of fruits. Mrs. Friesen, the teacher, had the children looking through a high power microscope at plant cells and human cells. After this the children made cells using a ziplock bag, jello, a grape and a couple of raisins. She got this activity from a science curriculum called, God's Design For Life, by Richard and Debbie Lawrence. Our cells have 5 parts (the children made these): 1. The Cell Membrane, represented by the zip lock bag 2. The Nucleus, the "brain" of the cell, represented by the large red grape 3. The Vacuoles, which are storage "warehouses" that store food for the cell 4. The Mitochondria, the cell's "power stations", represented by the raisins 5. The Cytoplasm, represented by the jello In addition to these 5 parts, plant cells also have: 6. The Cell Wall, represented by a shoe box 7. The Chloroplasts, the "power plants", where plants make their own food, represented by green grapes (cut into 4th's)

Creation Cut Outs

Edwards Co-op Class did Creation Cut out picture project. Edward is the one up in the Right Hand Corner (with the white horse). Unfortuantly I didn't think to get a better picture of his. I was taking pictures for the class this morning.

Bubbles, Bubbles, Giant Bubbles

Edward's co-op teacher gave us a wire coated hanger shaped in a circle, with rope. We were told to wrap the rope around the hanger and tie it to the top of the hanger. We had to make sure that the rope didn't hang down because it could pop the bubbles. With these the do it yourself wand, she sent us home with a recipe to make homemade bubble solution.
Here's that recipe (we doubled ours...this is the orginal recipe not doubled):
6 cups warmish water ( I found that it helps to disolve the soap and corn syrup)
1/2 cup Dish Soap (Dawn Orginal works best, we used orginal Dawn Ultra Concentrated....worked wonderfully)
1/8 cup light corn syrup
Mix very gently and pour slowly into a aluminum turkey roasting pan (or the lide of a large trash can). Avoid agitating soap mixture into foam, so bubbles form easily. This works best on a humid day with no wind.
We used this as a Science Project/Experiment. Edward was so excited about this as soon as his teacher gave us the items for the project. All the way home from Co-op Class I heard "We need to go to the store to get the items to make my bubbles". He enjoyed playing with the bubbles and seeing how big he could get the bubbles. We had a perfect day for doing this project.

Edwards Co-op Nature Box

This is the lid to Edwards Homeschool Co-op Class Nature Box. We were given these plastic shoes boxes to put our nature collection things in. We were asked to decorate the box lid. Edward helped me paint the background of the lid, then we applied the stickers and decoupaged it. It was a fun project to work on together.