February School Work

 This post is all about our school work during the month of February.  Of course, we carry on daily with our math and spelling/reading programs, but this post has most of our projects and activities

Tallest Mountains on Each Continent

We drew these to scale.  One inch= 100 meters.  

This picture has all 7 of our mounts (including the two to left of picture that are on the bookshelves.)

Mt. Elbrus in Europe. Notice the mountain climber that Nicole drew on the side and the snow falling in the air.

Of course, this is Mount Everest- Nicole's favorite mountain.

Hannah had a lot of fun helping us measure, cut and color the mountains

Nicole was introduced to Venn Diagrams (I don't remember doing this before middle school, but apparently you do them in first grade now!)  She totally "got it"

I was trying to explain the difference between a line and line segment to Nicole. Immediately, she remembered something she was taught in Sunday School about God being like a line.  He has no beginning and no end.  He is eternal.  But, that we have a beginning and and end, like a line segments (to which she added, except, when we die, if we believe in Jesus we will get to spend forever in Heaven with God so I guess we don't really have an end". )  It gave me much joy that she understood that and was able to relate a simple concept in math to God.  Awesome!

After a morning of failed science experiments, we went shopping and came back with flowers and herbs to plant.  Nicole planted the herb and tomatoes.  She wanted to be able to enjoy the fruit of her labor ;)

Hannah picked out the pretty flowers ;)

We learned about Michelangelo in CC, so we spent 20 minutes attempting to paint upside down.  Easier said than done (can you imagine painting for 40 years that way?!?)

We went on a field trip to Mourning Star Aquaponics Research Institute and learned about growing plants in water using fish to fertilize the plants.  

 Ocean

The last half of the month we studied the ocean.  Here is a drawing of the parts of the Ocean floor.  Nicole made this drawing.

This was Hannah's interpretation.  Something about a little girl getting caught in a net and Nicole swinging on a sing (top center).  In the end, everyone was saved by daddy.

We also made a 3-D diorahama type project of the Ocean floor.  I helped very little.  Both girls had this down by then.  They did a great job!

Hannah's project.  I'm not sure what the cut up play doh was at the bottom...but she ran with this project and did a great job!

Nicole's final project.  That's a person swimming at the beach by the way. She included an island, ridges, mountains and trenches as well as the Continental Shelf, Continental Slope and Abyssal Plains.

This was another project we did with some friends.  These are the three zones of the ocean.  Photic, Bathyl  an d Abyssal

Rainy Day

One rainy day, Nicole said she wanted to sew.  

sewing the button

We made an iPhone case

For her iPod

Checking out crystals under the microscope.

We had a busy and fun month of February.