Month: May 2015

With the rain continuing to come down outside, we started our day on a soggy note.

I woke early this morning with good intentions of getting an earlier start in school and was slammed in the eye from Daisy jumping onto the bed! Her head (bone) hit my left eye and the area swelled up a bit and is very tender to the touch. I am hoping that it doesn’t turn black and blue because then I don’t have to explain that one!

I wrote out Isabel’s Bible verse for the week for her to study and practice this week.
She’s doing very well at learning the Psalm.

Spelling test:

She would have missed 2 words today but corrected
“acknowledgment” just before handing her paper in.
Great job!

5-minute frenzy:

Such good practice for her.
She stumbles one day on a multiple and other multiple the next.

Bible lesson:

Put on the full armor of God.
Love the crosses that she added.

Bean and Corn science:

Today we are wrapping up all our experiments and studies on our bean and corn science. Tomorrow we complete the final assignment.

Isabel’s beans grew tall and thin.
While her corn was short and thin.

Studying hard and getting her data gathered for graphing.

These 2 leaves (next 2 photos) she smeared with petroleum jelly (2 weeks ago) on the underside and upper side of the leaves to see which side had the stomata. Stomata, it’s nose so to speak, are the tiny openings in leaves that allow it to breathe air.

The stomata on this leaf are on the underside of the leaf.
The leaf is just beginning to look sickly because it’s “nose” as been plugged.

This leaf she smeared with jelly on the upper side of the leaf.
This leave is bigger, green, slimy (from the jelly) and thriving!

The result is clear when looking at both photos that the stomata are located on the underside of the bean leaf plant. What a awesome experiment!

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This leaf was wrapped in aluminum foil for 2 weeks.
It is still green but much smaller in size compared to other leaves on the plant.

Isabel’s prediction 2 weeks ago was that it would be yellow from lack of photosynthesis.

We started late this morning but we were able to get all the work completed just before 5 p.m.

We are down to our final 5/6 weeks of schooling! It’s been a great and adventurous year.

We will continue throughout the summer with piano lessons and the Lego® class and we’ll be picking up 2 other classes as well. We are also going to be looking into swimming lessons too.

This week we add another verse to our memorization of Psalm 42. This week’s Bible verse:

“Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.” – Psalm 42:5

The Indian prayer focus this week is the California Indians. Not a band of one large tribe but several different smaller tribes that got along and traded together.

• Yurok
• Chumash
• Miwok
• Pomo
• Hupa
• Yahi
• Wintun and
• Yokuts

Spelling test:

She was bummed she missed “acknowledge” she tried out several different
spellings (on scratch paper) before settling on this one. So close.

We are starting our final week of beans/corn.

“Jack” is thriving; while her corn has died.
Isabel’s theory is that “Jack” has sucked the life right out of the corn.

Placing blue colored dye on the stem of 1 bean plant and 1 corn plant.
The study is to see how the plant growth will increase and change the dots on the plants. Or will they stay the same? We will come back to this study on Friday.

New reading material:

Isabel will begin reading this one this week.
Marguerite Henry is becoming a favorite author of ours.

We began reading this one several weeks ago and will be finishing it this week.
I have loved hearing this story about a man a lot like Job.

I will begin reading this one aloud this week.