As your children advance in their science learning, you will want to have a microscope. A microscope can be borrowed from a family member, passed down through your homeschool group, or shared through a coop.
You can also purchase your own, and Home Science Tools has a great article on how to select a microscope.
Home Science Tools has a great YouTube channel where they showcase their products for teaching science. Here is a video highlighting their Kids Microscope product.
Today in our homeschool we are taking a closer look at the seasons and weather.
We routinely use a calendar to talk about what month and day it is, and we are making a weather chart by drawing in what the weather is outside for each day. I have a calendar to write on for this purpose, but you could make one on the computer very easily or get crafty with construction paper and a bulletin board. I have limited space, so I have chosen one that can be put away with the school books.
We are almost complete with December, and here is our weather chart:
Where’s the snow, by the way??? Hoping to add some snow on the 30th. :)
Meanwhile, in Alpha Omega’s Horizons curriculum, having taken almost a month off for Thanksgiving and Christmas, we are studying the seasons as well. Here’s the worksheet we did today: which things go with summer?
Today using Alpha Omega’s Horizons Preschool, we are learning more about the sun, God having created it on the fourth day of creation, and how it is used to govern the day. We learned that the day is comprised of 24 hours, and that the clock is used to indicate what hours those are. Our first introduction to telling time! Alpha Omega does a great job of tying everything together, in this case it blends science with math, sort of like a big creation unit study. A great way to showcase God’s creation using everything our little preschooler sees around him.
In today’s lesson, we are working on memorizing Genesis 1:16: “God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.”
We are learning how the earth spins as it orbits the sun, even though it looks like the sun is moving around us.
We are discussing the difference between daytime and nighttime, with which activities go with each.
We watched some Youtube videos showing gravity, astronauts being weightless in space, a cat weightless in space, and astronauts in training in the back of the aircraft that simulates weightlessness by flying in a parabolic arc. We talked about Zero gravity, and “0G” “1G” “2Gs” and looked at a video of the moon landing to see the effects of gravity on the moon. The big takeaway from these videos was that he thought it was cool that the weightlessness video was set to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” song.
And after that brief diversion, we got back to business and got these printables on the clock from homeschoolmath.net to supplement the worksheet from Alpha Omega.
For Christmas… do they have Dinosaur Train watches? If not, definitely Cars or Thomas, I think….
