Life Skills
J learned to cook French toast and A helped shred the monster Zucchini we got from our garden to freeze. Later, it will become chocolate zucchini muffins. Even though it will be awhile before the first freeze, we decided to pull up the garden. Look at these beautiful carrots!
PE-Old School Hop Scotch. Our four-year-old is learning to hop on one foot and we are so proud to watch him improve his skills. The other kids had fun joining in.
Eventually it became part of an obstacle course.
Math- J is reviewing factors and products. And, since she loves long division, she makes up her own long division problems. A has been doing subtraction without remainders this week. And began addition with remainders.
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| A wrote his own math problem 5 digits long. |
We also decided to bake ice-cream for our science experiment! Baked Alaska helped us learn about insulation. The ice-cream was in a 450 degree oven for 4 minutes and it didn't melt. Thanks insulation!
Presidents by J-
Grover Cleveland was the 22nd AND the 24th president. He is the only president to leave office and then come back four years later.
Benjamin Harrison was sandwiched between Cleveland. He was not very memorable. Which is why I don't remember anything else. But I do know he lived when Utah was only a territory and California and Nevada were the same state.
William McKinley was the last president to have served in the Civil War and was voted as having the worst presidential eyebrows in history. He was assassinated (not because of the eyebrows) and Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt became president, whom we've already talked about so lets just head to the next president.
William Howard Taft was the heaviest president. So heavy, he got stuck in a bathtub. He really wanted to be a supreme court justice, which he did after his presidency. He was good friends with Roosevelt until he became president.
Roosevelt didn't like what Taft was doing so he formed his own party, the Bull Moose Party, and ran against him. That split the Republican party and a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, became president.
Woodrow Wilson helped give women the right to vote during his second term. However, he had lots of stokes during his life even during his presidency. He eventually died from one.
It looked liked Warren G Harding was doing good things as president but his friends, whom he put in power, created a presidential scandal. He took a vacation to Alaska and when he was heading back, he died of a heart attack in San Francisco, California.
Calvin Coolidge was Vice President for Warren G. Harding and when he died unexpectedly, Calvin Coolidge was made president. He was visiting family in Vermont at the time, so he became president in his own house.
Herbert Hoover was president during the Great Depression. Before he was president he fed lots and lots of people around World War I. He was known as The Great Humanitarian.
Stay Curious
One night at dinner J asked a lot of nutrition questions.
What is the healthiest food? While dark leafy greens are worth mention, and Chia seeds are one of the healthiest seeds. We decided a good balance of all the food groups would be the healthiest.
What is the healthiest meat? We said Salmon.
What is the healthiest vegetable? Spinach is one of the most nutrient dense foods, and so is kale. These two leafy greens frequent Google lists of "healthiest vegetable". We planted kale in our garden this year and found it to be incredibly prolific, it was also one of the only things in the garden the deer didn't eat. Should that be a good or bad sign? Hm... Also, does anyone have any good frozen kale recipes?
What is the healthiest tree? We said the every fruit tree. We talked a little about how grafting works so a tree could bear multiple types of fruit. We then discovered a researcher has created a tree that bear 40 different types of fruit!
Extra for the family-All about K
While I have been mainly writing about our two kids enrolled in My Tech High, I have also been doing preschool with my four-year-old and would like to share more about what we do for him as well. He also goes to a public preschool a few hours a week partly for physical therapy. He participates in most of our science projects and we do reading at home. He is both read to and is learning to read using the book, "How to Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons".
He excels at puzzles and both him and his brother have been doing a monthly Lego project that they take apart and put together multiple times. This week his favorite thing from public preschool, besides the playground, was taking yellow paint and blue paint and making green paint.
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