Just getting to writing last week’s blog. We had a chaotic weekend preparing for an open house yesterday & getting back into house hunting. I will be so relieved when this is all over! (Although I haven’t quite realized how much work I will have on the other side of a move… I am allowing my brain the luxury of a little unrealistic expectation. lol)
I declared a sick day on Tuesday, so we only had 4 days of school. Thankfully, it was just one of those 24 hour head colds. I almost never get those! Wednesday’s lessons were a little over-stuffed as I tried to compensate. I think next time, I will try to spread the love over a few days instead of just one.
This week’s Biology experiment called for looking at protozoa through a microscope. Not going to happen. We don’t own a microscope yet (and yes, I know we’ll have to eventually) and I don’t even have room right now to borrow someone’s. Keeping a house in selling condition definitely constrains us. But we can be thankful for Youtube! I found tons of protozoa videos online. We watched all kinds of single cell creatures moving, eating, & dividing. I love Youtube’s sidebar “other videos you may be interested in” – we happily browsed around for quite a while. The boys even let out a very disappointed “Awww!” when I shut down the laptop. We were able to watch a wider variety than I would have had available at home, with someone else taking the time to find the perfect “a paramecium divides” moment to capture. Eventually, it will be good to teach the boys that science requires a lot of patience, but this was perfect for where we are now.
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