Max & Mali - Week 6

 We did some Life of Fred lessons this week. We also played a fun activity with our big yard dice where we tried to make the largest number we could with three dice. 

In history we learned about the Gupta Dynasty in India. The Ganges River is kind of like the Nile River in Egypt. It would flood every year and leave good soil to grow crops in. 

We did some fun experiments with our science class this week. We put Pop Rocks in cola and caught the carbon dioxide in a balloon.  The teachers on the video compared the amount of carbon dioxide to the amount made just by shaking up the bottle of cola and they were pretty equal, so it didn't really do much to make it more bubbly. We also put baking soda in vinegar and trapped that gas with a balloon. That filled up the balloon A LOT! We thought it might explode but it didn't. We also made a "lava lamp" bottle with oil, water, food coloring and Alka-seltzer. We learned about the differences between chemical and physical reactions. We also finished watching the documentary on Netflix "My Octopus Teacher." It was really good. Octopuses are really beautiful and neat animals. 

MAX:

I did more lessons in my language arts program and finished Unit 3. I got to work on my story about the little alien who lives on Jupiter. I read Knight Fight. 

I got my next Bitsbox subscription in the mail. I did one of the apps. It has a castle and a robot defender. I chose a different robot stamp and changed the thing that was "attacking" the castle. It was a diamond and I didn't think a diamond was very interesting. 

MALI:

I did lessons in my Toe By Toe manual. I am practicing not mixing up my bs and ds. I started making a new story. 

I made up a game and we used our number tokens that my mom made with the wood burner. We each had to draw out six tokens and then try and make the biggest 3 digit numbers we could. Whoever had the biggest number of each pair would win a point. I got to ten first so I won. 

I took my camera to the river trail on our bike ride and got some pictures of the ducks. One duck was standing really still so it was nice so I could get a better picture. Lots of them were moving way too much. 

I got a new penguin for my birthday

Mali wrote this haiku after overhearing her brother Leif's 

lesson on haiku. Mom wrote it for her.

The duck that stood still a long time

At first we were only feeding 3 ducks, but by the end 

there were at least 60!

Cool mushroom we saw growing on a cut log on the river trail

We went to the Wilkerson Farm Fall Fair and did the corn maze

We made it through the maze!

I tried out DanceMat Typing this week but I didn't like it all that much 

so we are going to look for another typing program

So good! Watch it!

Can't really see them, but I drew some big lowercase b's on the sidewalk

Playing the game I made up with my mom

Coke plus pop rocks

Look how much more inflated the vinegar + baking soda balloon got!

Vinegar plus alka seltzer

cool top view of our "lava lamp" bottle