Plants and Apple Pie

This week in school we have been playing catch up. It's hard to believe that we've already fallen behind, but we have. I am not going to worry to much, I figure we will get caught up and if we don't we will just take some extra days and finish what we need to finish at the end of school. That's the great thing about home schooling, it's very flexible.

This next week in Science both girls will be doing some experiments so we will have some fun things to talk about.

Liberty finished up her first chapter in math this week, so she reviewed and then took a test on Wed. She missed two so ended up getting a 93% which of course is awesome,but the two problems she missed were things she knew. She missed them because she wasn't paying attention, she added when she should have subtracted and vice versa.  She was mad because she missed them, so I'm hoping she learned her lesson and next time she won't rush through it and make the same kind of mistakes.


This week was our monthly class at Botanica. The kids did an experiment where they had to find out if all flowers have the same amount of petals. They broke off into groups and each group had a daisy. They very carefully pulled the petals off and then counted them and wrote their answer down.  They then compared with the other groups and came to the conclusion that all flowers do not have the same amount of petals. They also started a growing bean experiment that they got to bring home that they will be watching through out this month. After class we of course had to go check out the butterfly house and then go to the children's garden.

This Friday we had a baking day. We had to go to the store to get supplies so we threw some math in to the works by having Liberty look at the price of each item we bought and then she had to round to the nearest dollar. At the end of our shopping trip she had estimated  that our total would be  38 dollars. We checked out and our total was 43 dollars. She then had to figure out how much she was off by. 

Teyla had to count the amount of each item we bought and she was the one who read the numbers off for Liberty.  Landon put the things we bought into like groups.

When we got home we baked apple pies. We have so much fun making pies and the kids enjoy peeling the apples. 

We made 4 pies in all, we delivered one to Grandma and Grandpa, one to Grammy and PopPop, one will go to work with Daddy and then we made one for home. 

We had a good week this week productive and fun.