Enjoying the Chaos

We love Apologia Educational Ministries homeschool curriculum for science . Captain has had a great time working through  Exploring Creation with Astronomy 2nd Edition . He recognized some of the material as I had the 1st edition that I used with Jam and Boo. To facilitate this review I was sent a lot of products to use with Captain. He was super excited when the box arrived! We received; The 2nd Edition Student Text  Note booking Journal Junior Note booking Journal Audio CD Like I mentioned earlier I had previously used the 1st edition text. However, the note booking journals and audio CD was new to me as we used lap books previously and I have never had the audio CD.  The first thing we had to decide was which note booking journal we were going to use. I wanted Captain to be on board right from the beginning so I let him choose. I explained that one of them was called a junior notebook and the other was the regular one. He took both notebooks to the t...

We have just completed our first experiment. Boo placed 2 peeled apples in bowls and covered one with Baking Soda and salt. We left it for one week and today was our check it out day. The apple left on our side just looks dryed out - no mold anywhere. I have seen others that were covered in mold. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Our apple covered in baking soda and salt is mummified, but in fact looks worse that the other. I hope we eventually get better at this science thing.