We were off yesterday and enjoyed the day together on the trail (see previous post).
With this week being shorter due to the holiday yesterday we can get all our work completed on time. Except for maybe today, since it’s piano lessons day. We usually don’t get something completed on Tuesdays, it gets pushed to Wednesday and that’s alright.
The Bible verse for this week is:
“When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.” – Proverbs 16:7
The Native American prayer focus this week is for the Chickasaw tribe.
The dictation passage for this week:
“Let the words you speak always be full of grace. Season them with salt. Then you will know how to answer everyone.” – Colossians 4:6
Today we talked about what it means to “season our words with salt”. What does that mean? In the passage, Paul is talking to the church in Colossians and he is urging them speak gracefully to others. Just like salt is used to make our food taste good or palatable, we need to use words that speak well or are palatable to the listener. Isabel’s lesson was to create some creative phrases of her own to replace “season them with salt”.
In our other lessons, we got through all of them today except for our reading books. Which is perfectly fine, we can add those chapters to tomorrow lessons!
In the classroom, we are continuing our science studies on radishes. Next week we wrap up our final lessons and move onto more seed sprouting! Before that though, we are growing, growing, growing our little radish seeds.
Today’s science assignment #1:
Toxic stress for our little radish seeds.
Objective:
To expose radish seeds to acid and salt water conditions. To appreciate that acid rain and soil salinity inhibit seed germination.
Making the germination bed for the seedlings.
(paper towels work very well for this!)
Cutting them out to fit inside the cups.
Each cup has 16 layers of paper towel.
1 cup for each environment.
Each environment with seeds inside.
We will return in 9 days to see the results.
Today’s science assignment #2:
Grid work
Objective:
To draw the development of growth from the seeds planted last Tuesday. (sorry no photos for this one!)
Today’s science assignment #3:
Grow!
Objective:
To measure and record the growth of developing radish seedlings planted on Friday.
Good thing we were off yesterday, these little seedlings have really grown overnight!
She is able to record the grown better.
Since we were absent yesterday we will record the findings from now until Saturday.
(with today being Monday’s observation, tomorrow being today’s and so on)
Today’s science assignment #4:
Phototropism: turning toward light
Objective:
To use a radish model to predict how cotyledons and hypocotyls grow to maximize exposure to light.
Her foil model to make her prediction.
She wanted to make 2 models, which is totally fine.
Placing her models in the tray with her sprouts.
Her prediction: that the seedlings will turn (bend) toward the light.
We’ll find out in 2 days when we return to this assignment and observe the results!