Body Vitals at Science Center

Today we went to see the Body Vitals exhibit at the Science Center. Unfortunately, no photography was allowed. It was incredible!! Although, somehow the kids were able to name a food that they thought every internal organ looked liked. Gross! 

INSIDE A TORNADO!! GOT UP TO 70MPH!!!

After the exhibit, Sharpshooter talked the girls into playing airsoft! LOL! 

Homeschool Pride Day @ Louisville Zoo

Big thank you to the Louisville Zoo for hosting a "Homeschool Pride Day" once a month!! This month we learned about animals that live underground. The boys got to play with a three ring armadillo and it was soooo stinkin' cute!!

Day 22 - Science at the Track!

Quick update: Monday's we have homeschool co-op (Sharpshooter takes recorder, Art, Math Games, and Cooking classes) so I don't get much chance to blog on Mondays. However, after co-op yesterday Sharpshooter got to interview a 90-year-old WWII veteran! He was a lot of fun and told us some great stories about life in WWII! I wish I had recorded the interview or took pictures or something, but alas, I didn't. Anyway, thanks so much to Clyde Windell for allowing my son to interview you and for your service!! (And thanks to Amber Windell, his granddaughter, for setting up the interview!)

Today we went to something called "Science on the Track" at Churchill Downs (you know, the Kentucky Derby race track). It was the coldest day ever!! So cold that the public schools even called for a 2-hour-delay so that kids didn't have to wait outside for the bus in the morning! At Churchill Downs we learned the basic differences in silt, sand and clay and how rock is weathered and eroded to form these particles -- and how they are then combined to make the perfect, most safe race track.

Here are some pictures from our day! 

In the Winner's Circle!! 

Baby Leonidas leaning about Colts! 

The boys racing eachother!

Brrrrr!!!!

Baby Leonidas and Me trackside!

Day 9 - Dropping an Anchor and Naked Eggs

 When it comes to learning, I prefer not to cast a wide net, but rather to drop an anchor and stay somewhere for awhile. I allow my children to choose which topic we drop the anchor in and how deep it goes. Right now, they have chosen "snipers." Everything from documentaries, to YouTube videos, to making rifles and scopes and silencers, to making the perfect camo, to learning how to gauge a target's distance, to watching every single Hollywood movie made about snipers from the past 30 years, we have done it this week!



Oh, and we made a naked egg today! So cool. You let the acid in vinegar dissolve the calcium carbonate, which gets rid of the shell but leaves the middle. It is like a bouncy ball now. And if you shine a light through it you can see the yolk and everything.