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Today in homeschool land Mechel made a model of the earth on it’s axis and used a flashlight to simulate the sun. It really made the solstice and equinox periods easy to understand! Meanwhile…Baila has started her study of the violin! Today she practiced bowing with half of the bow on each string. She came […] Today in homeschool land, we made a three-dimensional map of some hilly terrain. Then we submerged it in water, gradually increasing the depth and marking the high water line. We took it out and pressed some string into the lines to see it more clearly. Then Mechel stood above it and drew a contour map. […] Today in homeschool land we started to learn about the phases of the moon. A couple of days ago we started a moon observation log, but then moonrise shifted way past bedtime! Today we got out the sun, moon, earth model and turned off the lights to see the moon do its thing! Then we […] I checked out a really cool book about map activities from the library the other day, and it has inspired a whole homeschool unit! So today in homeschool land we had a lesson about maps and their scale. I made a grid using a very inexpensive, unpainted wooden picture frame I bought at the craft […] |
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