This past week was a fun, but busy week. Between N. and S. we had lots of cooking projects going on. N. is studying the early explorers and therefore his history project was making hard tack. After tasting it he decided that he understood why the sailors would stage mutinies after so long at sea.
In Science he is studying all the layers of the atmosphere. To give a visual of this his science experiment was to make a layered model using edible ingredients. It really allowed him to see the ratios of the different layers. He was amazed to see how small the troposphere is in relation to say the thermosphere. He then added a few more ingredients to his model to make cookies.
S. is studying Canada for her World Geography course so she made Blueberry Crisp.
Noah also finished up last weeks science experiment which was looking at the effects of acid rain. He put a penny in each cup and added water, water and salt, vinegar and vinegar and salt. He was fascinated with the fact that the salt and vinegar cup grew blue crystals on the outside of the cup. The vinegar turned the penny quite blue in just a week.
His written narration this week was about Columbus and his four journey's. It was by far his best written narration. He did adapt how he did it now that we know he has some memory issues. He read the paragraph's about his first voyage and then stopped and wrote those sentences and then did the same thing for each voyage. I am allowing this because he truly would not remember near as well if he waited until the end of the reading to try and write it. This way he didn't need to look back at the book unless it was for spelling. It was more than 8-12 sentences, but I allowed that because usually he gets the bare minimum.
In Boyhood and Beyond we had good discussions on what defines a leader. I really like how this book makes the types of topics very tangible.
The one other exciting thing this week was that we had a friend give N. an older version of the Lego Mindstorms Robotic kit. The neuropsych had strongly recommended that we explore Robotics for N. because he tested very high in the engineering related areas. We didn't know how we would afford a kit for him. Then this friend called, knowing nothing about the doctor's recommendations and offered the kit to N.
It is like new and N. is having a great time learning how to program it. This will serve as a nice addition to his studies on days that he has some time.
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