I was cleaning out or school cabinet (we can not take everything) and came across *slime* that I ordered a few weeks ago. This stuff was great to play with. Christopher, Peyton and I learned (well played) for hours. Christopher does attend the middle school for science class and his teacher is AMAZING. Everything is hands on. So for home school we focus more on math and writing. Every once in a while we need to do something just fun. Noah wanted to ride bikes with a friend. I saved some so we can learn later.
Christopher blew bubbles and we talked about how the GOOP changed as he added air. We also talked (and read in our science encyclopedia) about gravity, solids, and liquids. We read the ingredients and looked a few of them up. Learning can be fun....
Christopher squeezed the goop between his fingers. The more he squeezed the harder the substance would get.
Him and Peyton would pull and pull to try and break it. At one point it did break. So we put it back in the bowl and once again it was more of a liquid.
Christopher started out with a ball holding it up, and watched it slowly drip into the bowl. He did manage to make a mess all over the floor, so he cleaned it up! Home economics and science all rolled into 1. ha ha
Peyton loved his first science class. He made one HUGE mess. The good thing about this goop is cleaning it up was a breeze. I just used a dry cloth to absorb the moisture, then bleached the cabinet to get the blue off.
After we played, Ian got to clean the baby up!
Ian and I are discussing how school will look in Sasebo. Christopher will more then likely attend a few classes. His new school will have roughly 25, seventh graders. Small by any standards. Noah will be coming home daily at 10 am. He seems to be falling behind due to the writing issues we have. We have incorporated a mini recorder, and doing most of his work on the computer. It is helping tremendously. Anyone have any suggestions on curriculum for a fourth grader with Dysgraphia? Please pass them along.
3 comments:
Ah the joys of slime!
DH has a program called . . . Dragon Naturally Speaking. It's a voice dication program. Did you get a mac, because we had pc's but I imagine they have a mac version. As you read a script (there's a kid's version), it learns how you speak (you have a headset). Then, you can dictate into the computer. It's frustrating as anything as you first start and it's learning. But, then it works. And, I have no idea how expensive it is, because DH has it for work.
But, I hope that helps somewhat.
That is such an amazing material, isn't it? I just can never get used to its physical properties - solid, liquid, solid, liquid.
Christopher looked as skeptical about as I did at first!
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