Nancy takes cleaning Harvest's facility very seriously. She employs techniques that may seem unconventional but they are highly effective.


Bea learning about first and second class levers.


Are scissors first or second class levers? Leave a comment and get a prize!

Christine brought her class outside this morning to determine the types of clouds in our sky.

Woody Null, a Sterling EMT, visited us today to discuss how homeschoolers are able to become emergency volunteers. Thank you Woody!

We were riveted by Dr. Heiman's presentation.


Dr. Heiman-real-life-adventureman spoke with us about his adventures as a geologist today! He's repelled out of a helicopter, been chased by a bear, administered 27 stitches on his own leg and then hiked for many miles, been bitten by a rattlesnake -- while holding on a steep cliff and camped alone for a month! And we thought geologist spent his career in an air conditioned office.


Thank you Dr. Heiman!

Dr. Lynnea, scientist supreme, had us dissect diapers today. Hopefully she'll email me the scientific explanation!

Beauty is defined in so many ways. One that must please God is teaching his word in a loving manner. Here Christine is huddled with her sweet class and reading a book that corresponds to our science sentence on oceans.

We discussed density and viscosity in science today. Dr. Lynna-scientist-teacher-extrodiniare helped us pour oil, honey, food coloring, water, honey and coins into beakers to watch their interactions.

Kaleigh, Lynnea, Nathan, Science, Viscosity

Dispersion

Dispersion

Lisandrea, Jana, Diane and Nancy acted out a fat molecule that becomes emulsified by soap today. Our brilliant moms, lead by Jana, locked arms as a happy fat molecule. Then the dressed-in-black soap, Nancy, brust through their happy molecule and sent the moms out into the vast bowl of milk. A truly Emmy-worthy performance.

Dispersion

We discussed dispersion today. We first poured milk into plates and dropped spots of food coloring into the milk. We observed that the food coloring did not disperse but stayed in colorful blobs in the milk. Then we dropped one drop of dish soap into our plates. Instantly the fat molecules in the milk dispersed allowing the water-based food color to move around the whole plate, mix with the other blobs of color and form ribbons and designs in our plates!

Peter is going to be a volcanoist. Dr. Peter, Volcano Expert.

Helena and Jessica are great friends and science partners.

Caleb and Luke work on their volcano.


Joel and Boaz were fascinated!

Beatrice and the Volcano

Beatrice asked me what we were going to do today. I replied, "well I'm gonna love you and hug you and call you George". Bea squished up her nose and said "I'd rather you call me Princess". For that level of cuteness, Beatrice gets her own page.