School Break on For Another Week And A Half..

Just to warn you, I may not be on too much in the next week and a half. We have alot that we will be jam-packing in and possibly not alot of time to blog. So please be patient and I will give you a million blog posts when school starts back up after Easter! In the meantime, I will probably post some ABC posts from my Facebook blog as they are already done. For some of you they will be a repeat, for others it will be something new to read!

Just to give you a taste of the blog posts to come:

• Worm Farm Fun!
• Gardening Comes To Life
• Art Comes In Many Forms
• When The Cat's Away, The Mice Will Play
• Baking With Dad

And more to come! Stay tuned!

Learning Home Ec In The Home: We have baby plants!!!

After watching and watering faithfully, we are starting to see some plants!!!

Think you can recognize any of them???

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This is the one you are guessing on! Can you tell what it is??? 

HINT: It is a flower!

Put in your guess and receive free seeds in the mail!

(It is not marigolds or  gaillardia.)

Learning Home Ec In The Home: Starting Seeds and a Science Experiment

So this afternoon we started some seeds, you can read about it here. It was a BLAST! While planting our seeds, my younger girls asked why it was so important to make sure the plants never went dry. So we decided to do an experiment:

In these two bags, we have some beans...

(The same beans from this math blog with dad!)

I told the girls that in one bag we would start with water, but then not give it water ever again. 

In the other bag, we will water it always, making sure it stays moist. Then they will be able to see within a week, why it is important for our plants in our planters, shown below, must always have water.

They also practiced their printing skills:

Six Year Old's Handiwork

Seven year old working away...

All in all, a wonderful home-school day! I am SO glad the Lord pointed us in this direction! God is goo!