Week 8, ECC

This week in Exploring Countries and Cultures, we did an experiment and had some fun! We took two stalks of celery, took the xylem out of one and left the other intact, then put them in two glasses of water. I dyed the water which I wasn't supposed to do, but the experiment still worked. We saw first-hand how xylem takes water through the plant to the leaves.

I realized something about our Math curriculum this week. It is broken up into semesters, so we are to do one book in the first half of school, then another book in the second half of school. Well, according to the My Father's World lesson plan that I got with Singapore Math, if we do 5 lessons of math per week, we will get through the first book in 11 weeks. Now, I haven't gone to the second book to find out how many lessons there are, but I assume there are 55 as well. I'll go check on that in a few minutes. My point is that we will get through with the whole year of math in 22 weeks. We have 36 weeks of Exploring Countries and Cultures. I'm not exactly sure what to do, but I'm sure I'll figure something out.

This was our final week in Canada, and it was interesting to learn about the Inuit people. We also read about the French language, and farming and industry in Canada. In science we learned about plant life, animal life, and relationships between living things.

Andrew and I decided that we are going to have a break from school for a week or two, depending on how the last two weeks of my college classes go. I'll post on the blog when we start up again. Since we just finished up North America, it makes sense to stop here for a little bit before we move on to South America.

Here are some pictures of our celery experiment and the papers I made for the kids to learn their AWANA/Sunday School Verses.