Science Program - Chemistry

We finished our American History program, and we did not go a lot of science and so the kids wanted to do science everyday! well ok we did not do it everyday but almost. 

I was able to get Real Science for kids on ebay for a great deal so I go that We did Chemistry, and I also got Physics and Biology. We have finished Chemistry, and we have done half of physics. I do like them, but I would not say they are "worth" the original price but if you can find them used they are wonderful. There are experiments for each chapter and that is really nice. Although there were a couple we skipped.

here we are making molecules out of marshmallows. (Yes I bought them for this only, and no my kids did not eat them, and yes they were ok with it.)

I have supplemented with other books too, my kids LOVE this book called Transformed it is a little outdated but still really fun to read. I even really like it. It tells how a lot of things are made reminds me of like what Mr. Rogers did on his show but in a book.

We also picked different elements to learn about- I got these two books Periodic Table - fun this is a cartoon type books as if each element is a character my kids love it.
This book is AWESOME! Elements
it has really examples and pictures of the elements and really awesome facts and history along with it. this book really is for older kids, and will be used for years here.

As we came along things in our science we would read more about them, scientist or elements or other things. We also watched some Bill Nye to go along with it. I wanted to share all those details but I do not have time to post all that now. Maybe someday but for now, this will have to do.

Lego Club Party!

We had a wonderful time being part of the Lego Club this past year, it was really fun. For the end of the year I did a lego party the boys really did a wonderful job helping me plan it. For fun we gave out these lego crayons or Lego Key chains (see the bottom) I made them. The boys did wonderful at making they crayons they were easy but very time consuming 

We also read about crayons and how they are made in this awesome book called Transformed!

They boys also helped me make bean bags for the lego bean bag toss. The older two have used the sewing mating before, they did the peddle while I did the top this time both Ethan and Aaron did pretty good on there own, just have to go slow! the younger two I helped. (I did all the circles though)

The younger two loved to fill them with beans then we sewed them closed.

At the lego party these were the games we played… Lego Memory game. The boys build this board with lego mini figures doing things, we let them look at it, then we covered it, and let them guess to see what they could remember.

kids loved this. I thought about doing a fun action display but the boys wanted to do this, and it was easier :)

Here each kid got an equal about of legos in a dish, and they had different build challenges - like tallest tower in 10 second, or use only 2 brick and build - etc. I did not run this table so I did not come up with them but they were super fast and easy.

Here was the lego bean bag toss I made these four squares with duplo legos and they were to try to match the bag to the square. (orange went with yellow though) I thought it would be to easy but it was harder then the kids thought- they enjoyed the challenge.

Here are the lego keys chains I made. I had my wonderful husband drill holes in the legos, I added a ring, and chain that I got at hobby lobby, then added a key chain ring also hobby lobby. The tags I made with just finding images on line, then adding info under them in word, and printed them out cut them into shape of a tag laminated them, cut out again and added an i-let, because I have way to much scrapbook stuff that I will never use :) they were easy, and not to expensive but did take a lot of time. Mostly a lot of the time was deciding how I was going to do it.

Everyone has sooo much fun and that makes me happy! We also had pop corn and watched a short lego movie.